Henry VI, Part I, Acts I-III (Online)

In this session we will be discussing Shakespeare's 'Henry VI', Part I (Acts I to III). We ask that attendees read through the play's first three acts at least once before attending the meetup in order to best participate in the conversation.

Till then, please reach out to everyone via the Telegram chat group. The application link for the online sessions will be posted on the day of the meetup.

Cheers,
M

Tentatively meetup schedule, Acts I-III online (2 hours), and Acts IV-V in-person (3 hours)~

Telegram announcements: https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAFftW3w-sSXX3pG5mw

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The moderators aim to hold weekly online meetings for our community to explore the works of Sir William Shakespeare.

We wish to focus on the sonnets and each of the plays one by one as we progress.

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 of Athens

'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 attendee numbers and interest, the group will cycle through for another go at the cannon starting approximately in one year's time.

Cheers~