Come discuss Shakespeare! Once per month we look at a play by Shakespeare from the perspective that Shakespeare might have something to teach us (rather than the other way around) about politics and human nature. Open to interested Humber faculty, administrators and support staff. You don’t need a background in English literature to attend.

Our play for February is Richard II and we meet Tuesday, February 18 at 6 p.m. in E205, North Campus, Faculty of Business, Boardroom (E204F). Richard II is a history play that explores the downfall of a monarch who rules by divine right and is supplanted by a more modern breed of political king. This play has some of the most beautiful passages in Shakespeare and explores the exercise of political power, Richard's identity crisis as he is deposed, the strengths and weaknesses of monarchy, and the background to England's bloody War of the Roses.

Note our play for March will be Macbeth on Monday, March 16, with Measure for Measure on Monday, April 13.

Free text at opensourceshakespeare.org 

Arden, Signet, and Oxford editions of Shakespeare are also good.

Videos: Humber College Library has all of the BBC (early 1980’s) videos available which can be watched online. The BBC version of the play features the talents of Derek Jacobi, and Sir John Gielgud. A more recent film version (2012) features Ben Whishaw is also excellent.

RSVP to Kirk Rintoul, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Business at kirk.rintoul@humber.ca.

Limited to 16 confirmed attendees (waiting list if necessary)