Shakespeare Reading Group
Shakespeare Reading Group
The Shakespeare Reading Group holds bi-weekly meetings to read and discuss Shakespeare plays and poems selected by group members. Discussions will also include a range of scholarly articles and engagements with Shakespeare’s work, as well as film adaptations, novelizations, and stage performances of the original texts.
Our group’s aim is to examine the 400 year legacy of Shakespeare’s corpus and interrogate its possible futures : we will consider the kinds of critical and creative encounters that Shakespeare’s plays and poems have occasioned in the past and the ways that they have been taken up by scholars, writers, artists, and actors around the world. Why are we still reading, thinking about, arguing over, and performing Shakespeare’s plays and poems? What kinds of discourse do these texts generate when read in different social, political, and philosophical contexts? How might they take on new meanings in our current historical moment?
Each semester, our selected readings will revolve around a specific theme or set of questions. This semester’s theme will be chosen at our first meeting.
For more information, or to join the email list, please contact Halla Khalil hkkhalil@umd.edu.