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Reading SeminarsThe Greek Tragedies of SophoclesW11-R01
The Merchant of VeniceW11-R02 Shakespeare's *The Merchant of Venice* continues to fascinate and provoke students and audiences of the play. Does this drama express Shakespeare's own anti-Semitic feelings or is it a representation and analysis of anti-Semitism in particular and racism in general? Is Shylock a stereotype or a tragic figure? What is the role of gender in the play? Do the two parts of the play, Venice and Belmont, form a coherent whole, or is it an awkward yoking together of tragedy and comedy? This class will explore these and other questions that participants would like to bring to the discussion. Reading to Write BetterW11-R03 This seminar will focus on how to read the way a writer should read, not always for enjoyment or edification or to save your soul, but to learn from good writers and bad how to do things that will improve a story and avoid things that will damage it. We’ll discuss such writers as Richard Yates, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Zane Grey, Home, Harold Lamb, Tim O’Brien, Robert Louis Stevenson. |
Monthly Story SlamTues., May 15, 7-8:30 p.m. Lunch Break Book TalksHosted by Steve Huff Book Discussions at Valley ManorMay 16, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. The Culinary Reading and Discussion GroupHosted by Sandy Bosworth & Kathy Pottetti
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A study and discussion of Sophocles' seven extant tragedies (The Women of Trachis, Elektra, Philoctetes, Ajax, Oedipus the King, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus), considered individually and examined to see what light they offer for an understanding of the meaning of Greek Tragedy in the context of its own time and in ours, and the meaning of tragedy in general.