You're invited to observe Dr. Dan Moss, a 2024 Altshuler Distinguished Teacher Award Winner, for a session of his World of Shakespeare course. In this course, students meet Shakespeare’s princes, tyrants, heroes, villains, saints, sinners, lovers, losers, drunkards, clowns, outcasts, fairies, witches, and monsters. They’ll watch and listen as they love, woo, kiss, charm, hate, curse, mock, fool, sing to, dance with, get drunk with, sleep with, fight with, murder, and haunt each other. You will visit Renaissance England, a place and time as strange, troubled, exciting, delightful, fearful, thoughtful, prejudiced, political, magical, bloody, sexy, and confused as your own. You will read poetry you will never forget.

There are 75-100 students in this undergraduate-level class. In this session, they will discuss Act 3 of Shakespeare's "Henry V," with a particular focus on the parallel orations with which Henry first inspires his own soldiers and later menaces the besieged French citizens. Attention will be given to the way the scene would have been acted on the Renaissance stage (as opposed to modern film adaptations), the metatheater (drama about the making of drama, including training to be an actor) embedded in the first speech, and the biblical allusions anchoring the second speech and making it so disturbing. They might have time to have a few student volunteers act out Henry's "Once more into the breach, dear friends!" pep talk.

If you choose to attend this session, the instructor will introduce you to the class and explain why you are there.

Please note that you will receive an Outlook calendar invite with the class location after registering.