ONLINE: "Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably." Join a seasoned instructor for an uplifting online course exploring Shakespeare's masterful midcareer comedy "Much Ado About Nothing." Our initial sessions will investigate Elizabethan performance traditions and rhetorical tools from Barry Edelstein's "Thinking Shakespeare." So armed, we will dive into the language of each act as an actor or director would, getting the words into our mouths and experiencing the characters from the inside out. In doing so, we will discover how Shakespeare's language creates characters, and how the movement of those characters leads not just to laughter but to redemption, in this hilarious and soul-stirring "comedy of forgiveness." | Lecture + Q&A.
Max enrollment: 70.
Class sessions are recorded.
