Welcome to SPACE, our adult continuing education program which offers interactive monthly courses for personal enrichment! Learn more here.

March 2024  Standard Module
Discussion-based • Low intensity
This module continues the examination of Shakespeare’s late work with two baffling and beautiful plays. The Winter’s Tale begs the question: where does art end and magic begin? Containing the bard’s most famous stage direction—“Exit, pursued by a bear”—this tale of jealousy and forgiveness transforms from domestic tragedy into pastoral comedy, before finally arriving at one of Shakespeare's strangest endings. The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare’s final work, gives Chaucer’s Middle English "The Knight’s Tale" a Renaissance rewrite. Co-authored with rising star of the Jacobean stage, John Fletcher, this tragicomedy expands the scope of Chaucer’s female characters while hinting at a range of suppressed, taboo romantic desires. Blending the poignant and the absurd, the playwrights worried that their presumptuous "modern" rewrite would raise Chaucer's angry ghost!

Required Texts

Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen (any editions)
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Days and Times

Meeting Mondays & Fridays at 6:00 PM Eastern for eight 1-hour sessions on March 1, 4, 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 25

Signum Time
US/Eastern
Your Time
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Fri, Mar 1
6:00 PM
Mon, Mar 4
6:00 PM
Fri, Mar 8
6:00 PM
Mon, Mar 11
6:00 PM
Fri, Mar 15
6:00 PM
Mon, Mar 18
6:00 PM
Fri, Mar 22
6:00 PM
Mon, Mar 25
6:00 PM
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