Monday, June 19, 2017, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

“The Keys to the Kingdom: An Everyman’s Guide to Loving Shakespeare”

Jeff Watkins, the man (and some of us might say the genius) most responsible for the fact that Shakespeare is alive and well and available for our viewing pleasure year-round in Atlanta, will begin his presentation-cum-demonstration with a brief contextualization of Shakespeare’s work and its relation to how we define ourselves as Human Beings through myth and story.  He will then present Five Keys to understanding Shakespeare in performance:  (1) Shakespeare’s Playhouse, (2) The Role of the Audience, (3) The Elizabethan World View, (4) Shakespeare’s Verse Structure, and (5) Shakespeare’s  Dirty Jokes.  He will be using illustrations from performance to emphasize his points—not least references to the handling of scenes from the production of Richard III, scheduled through June at the Shakespeare Tavern, a production members of the Emeritus College will be able to attend, en masse, or in a good-sized group, anyway, on a date yet to be determined.