Tuesdays 10-12 Noon
September 30 through November 18, 2003
D.O.C. House
This will be Michael Manheim's fourth in a series of study groups devoted to the plays of Shakespeare on page and screen. The individual play will be read and discussed and three films of the play will be viewed and discussed. The three films to be viewed will be the Olivier film of the late 1940's, the Zeffirelli version (starring Mel Gibson) of the mid 1980's, and the Branagh version of the mid 1990's. The meetings at which the films are viewed will necessarily be extra long sessions.
Class is limited to 20 participants.
Michael Manheim received his BA from Columbia in 1949, his MA in 1951, and his Ph.D. in 1961. He is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Toledo, where he lectured and conducted seminars in Shakespeare, modern drama, and the "great books," as well as chairing the English department and serving terms as dean of the humanities division and director of the M(A)LS program. The recipient of both the university's outstanding teacher and outstanding research awards, he has published books on Shakespeare's history plays and the plays of Eugene O'Neill, in addition to a good number of articles and reviews in a variety of widely recognized scholarly journals. Since retiring, he has published the section on the English history play for a collection of essays on Shakespeare on screen published by Cambridge University Press and recently edited a collection of essays on O'Neill, also for Cambridge. He is past president of the Midwest MLA, the Ohio Shakespeare Conference, and the Eugene O'Neill Society. For the summer of 1972, he was invited to teach Shakespeare by the Dartmouth English department. He has written a new book on early modern drama.
