A23: An Overview of Shakespeare’s Plays: Cymbeline and King Lear - 6 units   
Henry McHenry
Wed. 9:30–11:30 a.m. - Sept. 10, 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15         
Meadows Presbyterian Church - Limit: 45

Henry D. McHenry is an independent academic, English teacher and exercise instructor. He teaches in the Upward Bound program at UVa and as a substitute in the Albemarle County Schools. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attended Yale and UVa. He is the author of FromCognition to Being: Prolegomena for Teachers.

Our purpose is to have fun reading, seeing and thinking about selected Shakespeare productions. Using our varying experiences and talents, we will examine the design of ideas in the plays and the design of stage realizations of them, using videotaped excerpts along with printed texts to ask: What do we think Shakespeare’s purpose was, in play, in scene, in dialog and in soliloquy?

I want to provide a way of apprehending Shakespeare not only as a cultural artifact but as a force for good. We want not to just discuss the plays but to appropriate them, to have them make a difference in our lives.