Please Join us on June 7th in the Coolidge Branch Basement, for
the Friends of the Brookline Public Library 2004 Annual Mtg.
After a brief business meeting and update beginning at 6:30, the
Friends are sponsoring the following presentation at 7:00:
Should we be celebrating Shakespeare's 400th in 2004?
Studying Shakespeare has become a contentious business. Brian
Vickers is chipping away at the canon. Michael Wood says the Bard's a Catholic.
Shakespeare & Company, in Lenox, is building a replica of the Rose Theatre and finding
new insight into Shakespeare's plays. And most radically, Boston's own Shakespeare
Fellowship thinks Shakespeare the playwright may not be William Shakespeare of Stratford
at all--and an increasing body of evidence backs them up.
Who are these new Shakespeareans? Why are they important even for those who believe
Shakespeare is Shakespeare?
Join Brookline novelist and scholar Sarah Smith, author of Chasing Shakespeares, for a
panel discussion on "New Approaches to Shakespeare".
The panelists will include Richard Whalen, noted biographer of
Edward de Vere, and a representative from Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox.
To quote from their Web site, "Shakespeare & Company aspires to
create a theatre of unprecedented excellence rooted in the classical ideals of inquiry,
balance, and harmony; a company that performs as the Elizabethans did--in love with
poetry, physical prowess, and the mysteries of the universe." Shakespeare
& Co., is now working to create a replica of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre, a project
that has led them to new insights about the performance of Shakespeare's plays.
Updates will be posted as additions are made. We hope you all can make it.
THANKS TO ALL WHO TURNED OUT! IT WAS A ROLLICKING GOOD
DEBATE!
