Into the Woods: As You Like It




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ClassGraphic The literary critic and Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom declares: “Of all Shakespeare's plays, the accurately titled As You Like It is as much set in an earthly realm of possible good as King Lear and Macbeth are set in earthly hells. And of all Shakespeare's comic heroines, Rosalind is the most gifted, as remarkable in her mode as Falstaff and Hamlet are in theirs... If Rosalind cannot please us, no one in Shakespeare or elsewhere in literature ever will.” Let us journey together to the Forest of Arden, away from the world of Lear and Macbeth. We will get to know Rosalind (“a boy playing a girl playing a boy pretending to be a girl”!) through a close reading and discussion of As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library Updated Edition, 2019), followed by a final-week discussion of Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation, set in Meiji Restoration Japan, which participants will view at home. Join us!

Class Details

4 Session(s)
Weekly - Wed

Location
Virtual - Any Location

Instructor
Multiple

Tuition: 

$0.00

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Schedule Information

Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
1/21/2026 - 2/11/2026 Weekly - Wed 01:15 PM - 03:15 PM N/A, Virtual - Any Location  Map Margaret A Schilt  ; Bob Elliott  ; Michael Hennessy 

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