Lifetime Learning: Shakespeare's King Lear - The Ultimate Tragedy

At its core King Lear is a devastating play about love, family, and power, and Shakespeare very consciously turned it in these dark directions to explore the limits of tragedy. In this four-week class led by Kerry Brown, we will view two versions of the play and use them as a way to understand why he made the decisions he did, what separates good acting from bad, and what gives the play its undeniable power. Brown, Ph.D., University of Delaware, taught Shakespeare to high school students for 46 years and more recently to adults for many years at the Eldredge Public Library and Snow Library.