{"id":11397,"date":"2026-03-15T06:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/shakespeare\/?page_id=11397"},"modified":"2026-05-24T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:56:58","slug":"olli-summer-2026-syllabus-tues-at-mab2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/shakespeare\/olli-summer-2026-syllabus-tues-at-mab2\/","title":{"rendered":"OLLI Summer 2026 Syllabus – Tues. at MAB2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time:<\/strong> Summer 2026. Tuesdays 10:45 a.m. \u2013 12:15 p.m. (May 26 \u2013 July 31).
Location: Maryland Pkwy campus, 4350 S. Maryland Pkwy.\u00a0MAB2. Room 155.
Instructor: <\/strong>Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D.
Email:<\/strong> ajdrake@ajdrake.com<\/a> | Web:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended Texts <\/strong>(*These editions can often be bought used at lower cost.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare. Sonnets and Poems. <\/em>Folger\/Simon & Schuster, 2006. ISBN-13: \u200e978-0743273282
Shakespeare. Love\u2019s Labor\u2019s Lost. <\/em>Folger\/Simon & Schuster, 2020. ISBN-13: \u200e978-1982164959.
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra. <\/em>Folger\/Simon & Schuster, 2020. ISBN-13: \u200e978-1982157340.
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. <\/em>Folger\/Simon & Schuster, 2021. ISBN-13: \u200e978-1982170158.
Shakespeare. The Two Noble Kinsmen. <\/em>Folger\/Simon & Schuster, 2021. ISBN-13: \u200e978-1982170165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course Description:<\/strong> We will examine Shakespeare sonnets and plays that tend towards the experimental and exploratory. The highly wrought, \u201csugared\u201d style of the sonnets and their treatment of romantic and sexual love will be our starting point, and then we will move on to one of Shakespeare\u2019s wittiest and most linguistically challenging plays, Love\u2019s Labor\u2019s Lost. <\/em>From there, with Antony and Cleopatra<\/em> it\u2019s on to the playwright\u2019s staging of history\u2019s most famous doomed couple\u2014a play that tries to transcend its tragic frame and join the romance genre of Shakespeare\u2019s last years. We will finish with the bittersweet history play Henry VIII, <\/em>in which a conniving, determined king betrays a queen he knows to be above reproach, and with one of Shakespeare\u2019s most experimental plays, The Two Noble Kinsmen, <\/em>a chivalric romance that takes its outlines from Geoffrey Chaucer\u2019s \u201cThe Knight\u2019s Tale\u201d in The Canterbury Tales.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schedule (Subject to change)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 1<\/strong>       May 26<\/strong>      Introduction to Shakespeare and the course<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 June 02<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Selected Sonnets<\/em>: 3, 5, 6, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 30, 36, 42, 53, 55, 60, 63, 65, 73, 76, 84, 87, 94, 103, 106, 107, 116, 124, 127, 129, 130, 133, 138, 144, 147, 153, 154.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 3      June 09<\/strong>      Love\u2019s Labor\u2019s Lost, <\/em>Acts 1-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 4      June 16     <\/strong>Love\u2019s Labor\u2019s Lost, <\/em>Acts 3-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 5      June 23     <\/strong> Antony and Cleopatra,<\/em> Acts 1-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 6      June 30     <\/strong>Antony and Cleopatra,<\/em> Acts 3-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 7      July 07      <\/strong>Henry VIII, <\/em>Acts 1-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 8      July 14      <\/strong>Henry VIII, <\/em>Acts 3-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 9      July 21      <\/strong>The Two Noble Kinsmen, <\/em>Acts 1-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 10 July 28      <\/strong>The Two Noble Kinsmen, <\/em>Acts 3-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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