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This Meetup group will operate under the assumption that Shakespeare's plays and poetry continue to make worthwhile contributions to the realms of entertainment and literature, and to audiences and artists today. All interested in the Bard and his canon---ladies, lords, players, free men, free women, married men and/or married women, teachers, tyrants, thinkers, students, scientists, believers, atheists, mortals, fools... ---ALL are most welcome.
2019-20?? - Round 3 (Historical Time of Action with Related Readings):
1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
> • The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
2. The Two Noble Kinsmen
> • The Knight's Tale of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Troilus and Cressida
> • Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
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4. King Lear
> • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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5. Coriolanus
6. The Comedy of Errors
7. Timon of Athens
8. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
9. Julius Caesar
10. Antony and Cleopatra
11. Cymbeline
12. Titus Andronicus
13. Love’s Labour's Lost
14. Hamlet
15. Macbeth
16. King John
17. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
18. As You Like It
19. Romeo and Juliet
20. Edward III
21. Richard II
22. All’s Well That Ends Well
23. Henry IV, Part I
24. Henry IV, Part II
25. The Merry Wives of Windsor
26. Henry V
27. Henry VI, Part I
28. Henry VI, Part II
29. Henry, VI, Part III
30. Richard III
31. Measure for Measure
32. Henry VIII
33. Arden of Faversham
34. The Winter's Tale
35. Much Ado About Nothing
36. The Merchant of Venice
37. Othello
38. Taming of the Shrew
39. Twelfth Night
40. The Tempest
2017-2018 - Round 2 (Historical Time of Action) (Retired List):
1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2. The Two Noble Kinsmen
3. Troilus and Cressida
4. King Lear
5. Coriolanus
6. The Comedy of Errors
7. Timon of Athens
8. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
9. Julius Caesar
10. Antony and Cleopatra
11. Cymbeline
12. Titus Andronicus
13. Love’s Labour's Lost
14. Hamlet
15. Macbeth
16. King John
17. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
18. As You Like It
19. Romeo and Juliet
20. Edward III
21. Richard II
22. All’s Well That Ends Well
23. Henry IV, Part I
24. Henry IV, Part II
25. The Merry Wives of Windsor
26. Henry V
27. Henry VI, Part I
28. Henry VI, Part II
29. Henry, VI, Part III
30. Richard III
31. Measure for Measure
32. Henry VIII
33. Arden of Faversham
34. The Winter's Tale
35. Much Ado About Nothing
36. The Merchant of Venice
37. Othello
38. Taming of the Shrew
39. Twelfth Night
40. The Tempest
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Round 1 (Retired List):
Beginning Saturday, the 1st of November 2014, the moderator aims to hold weekly meetings with members of this group. She wishes to focus on all the plays one by one, beginning with The Comedy of Errors. The primary aim is to understand clearly why so many scholars have claimed Shakespeare's texts as context for modern thoughts and conventions, and, as some dare say, for modern humanity itself. The moderator wishes to challenge the group not only to understand the literature critically, but also to think creatively by exploring connections within the world of a single play, between the plays in the collection, and between the collection and the worlds outside of it.
Here is the suggested order for the plays:
'The Early Comedies'
1. The Comedy of Errors
2. The Taming of the Shrew
3. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
'The First Histories'
4. Henry VI
5. King John
6. Richard III
'The Apprentice Tragedies'
7. Titus Andronicus
8. Romeo and Juliet
9. Julius Caesar
'The High Comedies'
10. Love's Labour's Lost
11. A Midsummer Night's Dream
12. The Merchant of Venice
13. Much Ado About Nothing
14. As You Like It
15. Twelfth Night
'The Major Histories'
16. Richard II
17. Henry IV
18. The Merry Wives of Windsor
19. Henry V
'The "Problem Plays"’
20. Troilus and Cressida
21. All's Well That Ends Well
22. Measure for Measure
'The Great Tragedies'
23. Hamlet
24. Othello
25. King Lear
26. Macbeth
27. Antony and Cleopatra
'Tragic Epilogue'
28. Coriolanus
29. Timon ofAthens
'The Late Romances'
30. Pericles
31. Cymbeline
32. The Winter's Tale
33. The Tempest
34. Henry VIII
35. The Two Noble Kinsmen
Depending on size and interest, the group will cycle through for a second go at the cannon starting in June.
Cheers~
