Readaloud: "Shakespeare after All", by Marjorie Garber (and sometimes others)

This is a read-aloud session, with all text shared on-screen. No experience needed; we're all here to learn. You do not need to purchase the book for yourself, although we encourage you to do so.

Because we have been having such a dickens of a time understanding who is who and what is going on in our Wednesday Shakespeare play-readings, we are going back to regular readings of Marjorie Garber's about the plays; we are after all following the order she talks about them in her books. If we run out of Marjorie about a play we're doing, we will read other writings about it.

"A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.

Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time."

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Late-comers, unless we know you, will generally not be admitted, as it disrupts the reading. However, it's fine for attendees to drop off at any time they want.