Shakespeare In-Depth with Philippa Kelly

Shakespeare In-Depth is coming back in 2024!

Resident Dramaturg Dr. Philippa Kelly returns with a new round of Shakespeare In-Depth!

Approaching each text with the same rich, immersive knowledge she brings to her beloved Grove Talks, Philippa will explore vital questions about what makes Shakespeare’s words so potent for the moment we are living in right now.

Lectures will be via a Zoom Webinar and the study Group Classes will be live streamed on Zoom.

Past Class

Such Seething Brains: Shakespeare and the Modern Mind

Shakespeare and the Modern Mind

Join scholar/dramaturg/author Dr. Philippa Kelly, Cal Shakes’ Resident Dramaturg, to explore Shakespeare in an eight week “In Depth” series.

For just $60 a session, or $480 for the full eight episode series, attend a one-hour class on Tuesday evenings and an additional one-hour informal study group on Saturday morning (for a total of 2 hours of learning) to unpack all the intricacies of each topic while giving you the opportunity to connect with Philippa in an intimate setting. 

Schedule

WEEK 1 – “TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE”
Lecture (pre-recorded)
Study Group (pre-recorded)

Focus #1: Hamlet
Focus #2: King Lear

WEEK 2 – MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME 
Lecture (pre-recorded)
Study Group (pre-recorded)

Galen vs. Vessalius – where and what are the faculties of the mind, heart and soul?

Focus #1: The Taming of the Shrew
Focus #2: Titus Andronicus

Week 3 – OPHELIA and the gendering of madness at the turn of the century

Lecture (pre-recorded)
Study Group(pre-recorded)

Focus: Hamlet

WEEK 4 – “BEING HUMANS” IN SHAKESPEARE’S WORLD
Lecture (pre-recorded)
Study Group (pre-recorded)

Focus #1: “seeing yourself” – reflections, mirrors, motifs
Focus #2: “seeing yourself” – friendship, love

Henry VIII, Julius Ceasar

WEEK 5 – SHAKESPEARE BEFORE THE TALKING CURE
Lecture (pre-recorded)
Study Group (pre-recorded)

Focus #1: Are we born to be what we become? Richard III

Focus #2: “I wasn’t always like this” Macbeth, Coriolanus

Focus #3: Fettered queens: Margaret of Anjou, Lady Macbeth

Focus #4 The cost of selfhood: Coriolanus

Focus #5 Stoicism and Virtue: As you Like It

Focus #6 Utopianism: The Tempest

WEEK 6 – SHAKESPEARE THE ECOLOGIST
Lecture (live-streamed) 
Saturday May 13, 11:00am Study Group (live-streamed)

Lecture: Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 PM
Study Group: Saturdays, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Focus #1 the climate as an expression of identity

Focus #2 climate change

Focus #3 the human animal

Focus #4 the seas of change

A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Twelfth Night

The full eight session series costs $480, or pick individual sessions for $60 for each  (includes one-hour classes and one one-hour study group)

 If you have issues signing up please reach out to the Cal Shakes Box Office at
(510) 548-9666 or boxoffice@calshakes.org.

Zoom links will be sent out the Monday before each class from learn@calshakes.org. If you have questions about Zoom or register after 4pm the Monday prior to the first session, please reach out to  learn@calshakes.org.

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