Tuesdays 13 PM
January 13 through February 24, 2004
Kendal - Training Room
When Frank Kermode asked a player at Stratford-on-Avon how he would read his lines in one of Shakespeare's more difficult plays, the reply was, “As if I knew what they meant.” Shakespeare's plays, perennially contemporary, were written to be performed and they unveil themselves most rapidly when they are read aloud. No acting experience is necessary for this study group, only the willingness to read roles aloud after having studied them at home. Since Shakespeare began as a poet, we will start by reciting and discussing some of his sonnets, the go on to read aloud Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest. There will be some hand-outs and optional reading.
Class is limited to 20 members.
Susanne Dubroff's poems and translations have appeared in The Hampden-Sidney Poetry Review, The Mid-American Review, The Sonora Review, The Harvard Review, The Christian Science Monitor Sojourner, Chelsea, and elsewhere. She has work forthcoming in Chelsea, The Paris Review, and The Great River Review Rene and her manuscript This Smoke That Carried Us. Selected Translations of Poems of Rene Char will be published in April. Susanne led an ILEAD study group on the poems of Emily Dickinson in the Fall of 2002.
