TITLE:   10 Things to Love about Shakespeare 

DATES: November 13 & 20, 2012

TIME:    8:30 am to 3:00 PM

LOCATION:  University Hall, ADP Center Room 1145

INSTRUCTOR:  Naomi Conn Liebler, Professor and University Distinguished Scholar

For Shakespeare, as we know, “the play” was “the thing,” but what sort of “thing” was it? How different was a comedy from a tragedy? (Hint: they’re not as different as we might think.) Comedy and tragedy are more than two masks; they are refracting mirrors of a kaleidoscope whose bits of confetti never change but seem to shift as we turn the cylinder. This seminar will explore 10 key principles—some separate, some overlapping—of the two major Shakespearean genres that organize that “thing” into glorious commentary on the great pageant of human concerns.

A light breakfast and full lunch will be provided.

Please note: You must attend both sessions to receive professional development hours.

Naomi Conn Liebler, Ph.D.,  is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar, and currently also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the MA Program in English.  She is the  author of Shakespeare’s Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre and of numerous essays and articles on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and editor of The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama, of Tragedy (an anthology of theoretical approaches to the genre), and most recently, of a collection of essays, Early Modern Prose Fiction: The Cultural Politics of Reading. She is currently working on a book about Shakespeare's Geezers--his negotiations of old age throughout the plays.

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