Wednesdays 2:30-4:30 PM
September 29 through November 17, 2004
D.O.C. House
“It’s just a friendly game,” one man says to another, “somebody wins, somebody loses,” but what follows is more struggle than game and far from friendly. Why is this so? Must it be so?
Readings to illuminate the gamesmanship of power: Sophocles’ Antigone; Ibsen’s A Doll’s House; Shakespeare’s Othello; an Air Force film that puts chessmen on the board; Molière’s Tartuffe; Chekhov’s Rothchild’s Fiddle; two essays by George Orwell and Beñat Le Cagot’s story of a small community in the French Pyrenees.
Conversations focus on the assigned readings, therefore members can expect to read each text critically. Class is limited to twelve to insure everyone’s involvement.
Class is limited to 12 members.
SCRIBNER JELLIFFE graduated from Dartmouth and obtained an MA from NYU in History before teaching in schools in this country and abroad. As an adjunct to teaching, he has lead Great Books discussion groups.
