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Seminar: Donald McDonough, Echoes: What Was Shakespeare Reading? (three sessions)

Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 11:00 AM | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | $40 for all three sessions (recommended); $15 per session

If the original shout came from a Plutarch translation, a British chronicler, or a rival playwright, William Shakespeare’s echo is louder. Was it his memory only of Grammar School Latin texts, of Ovid, Plautus, and Julius Caesar, which sparked his invention? Checking out sources for his Cleopatra, Hamlet, and Lear, his Falstaff, Juliet, and Bottom, his Kate, Petruchio, and Prospero allows us to speculate about why and how he competes with his sources. Remember—we don’t have his library card.

This seminar meets Thursdays
October 6,
November 10,
and December 8.