Dive Into Shakespeare This Summer with “Undiscovered Shakespeare” and “New Swan Shakespeare”
If you’re looking to dig deeper into Shakespeare through conversations with scholars and performers, check out the virtual reading and discussion of Troilus and Cressida with “Undiscovered Shakespeare”:
“This three-part virtual reading of one of Shakespeare’s most unusual tragedies continues the “Undiscovered Shakespeare” collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare, The Humanities Institute, and The Shakespeare Workshop. Join us as we read through this play episodically on Zoom, and dig into the text with lectures from scholars and conversations with the cast. Swinging wildly between bawdy comedy, epic history, and tragic romance, Troilus and Cressida plays about against the backdrop of the Trojan War. With its examinations of honor, fidelity, pretension, romance, and war, this is a play that Joyce Carol Oates described as an ‘implicit debate between what is essential in human life and what is only existential.’”
To learn more and to register for the event, click here.
If you’re looking for a new way to explore the ideas in Shakespeare’s works and learn how they could shape our lives today, explore the series “How to Live Like Shakespeare.” The series, co-hosted by Sean Keilen and Julia Lupton, is a collaboration between the New Swan Shakespeare Center at UC Irvine and the Shakespeare Workshop at UC Santa Cruz, and covers topics from wit and imagination to fortitude, forgiveness, and wisdom. You can find the series here, through the New Swan Shakespeare YouTube channel. You can learn more about the series through this interview with Sean Keilen.