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  • Original Practices in Elizabethan/Jacobean Working Theaters: Virtual Lecture

    SDSS Event

    Join us for a free lecture on the value of using original practices in Elizabethan and Jacobean theaters with Dr. Ildiko Solti. RSVP on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/original-practices-in-elizabethanjacobean-working-theatersvirtual-lecture-tickets-571934821447   "Why are Elizabethan/Jacobean replica theatres still being built? Is their aim to make discoveries about the past or the present? What forms of knowledge can be gained by […]

    Free

  • Appreciating Shakespeare – With Gideon Rappaport

    SDSS Event
    Mission Valley Library 2123 Fenton Pkwy, San Diego, CA, United States

    RSVP on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/appreciating-shakespeare-with-gideon-rappaport-tickets-568686565827 On Tuesday, May 9th, at 6:30 p.m., at the Mission Valley Branch Library, Gideon Rappaport, San Diego’s premier Shakespearean dramaturg, will discuss his book Appreciating Shakespeare, which provides essential tools for understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's plays and poems. His book also includes short essays on twenty-two plays, pointing readers to the […]

  • The Role of English-Russian Relations in Love’s Labour’s Lost

    Zoom

    RSVP on Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/3DFts7L Shakespeare's play, Love's Labour’s Lost has perplexed scholars and theatergoers for more than 400 years because of its linguistic complexity, obscure topical allusions, and non-comedic ending. Traditionally it has been seen as Shakespeare's "French" play, based on events and characters from the French Wars of Religion. In her book Shakespeare, Elizabeth […]

    Free

  • Dr. Gideon Rappaport on Hamlet

    SDSS Event
    Mission Valley Branch Library 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego, United States

    Dr. Gideon Rappaport, San Diego’s premier Shakespearean dramaturg, will discuss his latest book William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which aims at nothing less than a radical restoration of the meaning of Hamlet. Though it is one of Shakespeare's greatest and most beloved plays, Hamlet has been repeatedly misunderstood. This is partly because audience assumptions about the nature […]

    Free

  • The Future of Shakespeare, Race, and Performance: Public Lecture by Ayanna Thompson

    Manchester Hall Auditorium, USD University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA, United States

    Scholar and theatre practitioner Ayanna Thompson will deliver the 2024 Dempsey Lecture at the University of San Diego. Professor Thompson is internationally recognized as a leading critical voice on questions of race and performance in the Renaissance. She earned her AB at Columbia University, where she was a protégé of Edward Said. As a Marshall […]

    Free

  • Acting Shakespeare Panel Discussion

    SDSS Event
    Mission Valley Branch Library 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego, United States

    Come and hear local actors and directors discuss how to perform this Shakespeare stuff! Our distinguished panel includes: Heather LaForge: Director (educational productions), Groundworks Theatre Artistic Director Kristianne Kurner: Director (professional productions), New Village Arts Artistic Director Isa Fitzgibbons: Actor and Dramaturg (educational productions), college BFA student Tom Daugherty: Actor (professional productions), Equity Actor and […]

    Free

  • Shakespearean Roots: Folktales that Inspired the Bard

    Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning Center 17170 Bernardo Center Drive, San Diego, CA, United States

    A king gives his daughters a chance to tell how much they love him. Three boxes — which one contains the real treasure? A man says he can prove that another man’s wife is not faithful. Any of these sound familiar? They should. Shakespeare read all the blockbusters of the day. Gesta Romanorum? And, ecology-minded […]

    $15.00

  • Stage Combat

    SDSS Event
    Mission Valley Branch Library 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego, United States

    Did you ever wonder how those elaborate broils in Shakespeare are managed? How does Prince Hal keep from really sticking Hotspur? This will be a lecture and demonstration in the specialized theatre technique of creating the illusion of physical combat without causing harm to the actors. Such fight choreography is critical to effectively staging many […]

    Free

  • Certainty, Doubt, Cognitive Bias, and Shakespeare: An Update on the Authorship Controversy.

    SDSS Event
    Mission Valley Branch Library 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego, United States

    Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law will discuss the current thinking on certain subjects related to the composing of the plays and sonnets in the Shakespearean canon, including the overarching authorship question, the co-authorship theories popular amongst orthodox scholars, as well as the status of the Thomas North authorship theory.

    Free

  • Shakespeare’s Peers

    SDSS Event
    Mission Valley Branch Library 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego, United States

    The man with the funny haircut seems to take up most of the oxygen in the Elizabethan room, but what about other playwrights of the period? What about Thomas Kyd and his Spanish Tragedy? What about Kit Marlowe and his Tamburlaine? Or Ben Jonson, Will’s supposed pal? And the others? Kim Keeline will provide a […]

    Free

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