“To Speak What I do Know…” Talking About Shakespeare’s Julius Ceasar

Writes Professor Lin Haire-Sargeant:

Friday, September 22, 2 – 4 p.m., Professor Emeritus Athans Boulukos will lead us in the first in a series of discussions on Shakespeare’s Roman plays. Please bring your copy of Julius Caesar. Athans will introduce the series at this meeting. He invites you to choose a passage from the play that you would like to discuss/read. Everyone is welcome.

“We are reading Shakespeare’s last three Roman plays,” Professor Boulukos writes, “to know them better and to ask ourselves this question: What is Shakespeare seeing when, at critical moments in their history, the Romans saw their past disappearing and their future emerging unknowably?”

We’ll choose our meeting room (either the Chair’s office or a nearby conference room) to fit the size of the crowd–so please let us know whether you can attend.