Online meeting link: [https://meet.jit.si/Kierkegaard-Friday-CPM](https://meet.jit.si/Kierkegaard-Friday-CPM)

Before beginning another reading of *Either/Or*, we'll be reading a few plays together. These plays are all featured in *Either/Or*, and so they should help prepare us for encountering them, and will also provide a palate cleanser between works of Kierkegaard.

During the meetings, we'll decide on roles and read the plays. We will take breaks to discuss, likely between scenes or acts. Also, we'll have as many meetings as needed to finish the plays.

Here are the plays we'll read together before beginning *Either/Or*:

* Sophocles - *Antigone*
* Scribe - *The First Love*
* Goethe - *Faust*

Additional works you could look at before we begin *Either/Or*:

* Goethe - *Clavigo*
* Mozart/Ponte - *Don Giovanni*
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQBmLHSXQdg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2VdxseTvE)
* Mozart/Schikaneder - *The Magic Flute*
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_qtZ-Hm7k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_qtZ-Hm7k)
* Mozart/Ponte - The Marriage of Figaro
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ik-PzAXsQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ik-PzAXsQ)

**On the Friday Meetings:**
The Friday meetings began on January 1, 2016, with an initial goal of reading through the first half of Søren Kierkegaard's works. Due to continued interest, we have decided to return to previous works for review, study more background texts, and continue beyond the first half of Kierkegaard's writing.
Works read so far in the series:

* The Concept of Irony, With Continual Reference to Socrates (Kierkegaard)
* Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures (Kierkegaard)
* Either/Or (Victor Eremita, et al.)
* Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
* Fear and Trembling (Johannes de Silentio)
* Repetition (Constantin Constantius)
* Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
* Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
* Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
* Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
* Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
* Johannes Climacus or De Omnibus Dubitandum Est (Johannes Climacus)
* Concept of Anxiety (Vigilius Haufniensis)
* Prefaces (Nicolaus Notabene)
* Writing Sampler (A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab)
* Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
* Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (Kierkegaard)
* Stages on Life's Way (Hilarious Bookbinder)
* Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
* The Sickness Unto Death (Anti-Climacus)
* Works of Love

Works read for background:

* The First Love (Scribe)
* The Berlin Lectures (Schelling)
* Clavigo (Goethe)
* Faust Part I (Goethe)
* Antigone (Sophocles)
* Axioms (Lessing)
* The Little Mermaid (Anderson)

Works read inspired (at least in part) by Kierkegaard

* The Escape from God (Tillich)
* You Are Accepted (Tillich)

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