About this Event
Booking will close on Friday 27th September 2024 at 12 noon.
Due to limited resources, we are UNABLE TO ACCEPT LATE BOOKINGS after this date.
This course will be held at the Paterson Learning Centre, Botanic Garden , University of Dundee, Riverside Drive, Dundee DD2 1QH.
Directions to get to this venue can be found by clicking here .
Please note, there is ample free parking at the Botanic Garden and there is also a café which is open from 09.00 - 17.00 on a Saturday.
Twelfth Night is a beguiling mix of shifting moods, lit by the iridescent beauty of “changeable taffeta” – funny, poignant, lyrical, melancholy, sometimes subtle, sometimes outrageous in its comic invention. It ranges from “If music be the food of love” to Sir Toby’s Belch’s “A plague o’ these pickled herring” and thoroughly deserves Hazlitt’s praise as “one of the most delightful of Shakespeare’s comedies”. It presents a study in the follies of love, whether it be romantic love, self-love, love of the good life or love of mischief. Accompanied by haunting songs, aristocrats, a steward, a pirate, a cross-dressing page boy and a professional fool play their parts in the brilliantly plotted action.
We will focus in close detail on particular scenes and passages to engage with language, imagery and characterization. Film extracts and slides (from productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company) will help our enjoyment and understanding of the play in performance. Participants are asked to have read the play in advance and to bring a copy of the play with them.
The day will run from 10am to 3.45pm, with breaks for refreshments and an hour’s lunch break.
Tutor: Rebecca Brown
Before moving to Scotland, Rebecca worked for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, in Stratford upon Avon, where she organized and taught courses on Shakespeare and the literature of his time to a wide range of students, young and old, including many from British and international universities. She often worked in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute. In recent years, Rebecca has taught courses for the Continuing Education programmes of the universities of Dundee and St Andrews.
Enquiries should be sent to: [email protected]
As a volunteer organisation with limited resources, we try to respond to all queries as quickly as possible. Please bear with us.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Paterson Centre, Botanic Garden, University of Dundee, Riverside Drive, Dundee, United Kingdom
GBP 35.00 to GBP 40.00
