Listening to Shakespeare: A Workshop by Prof. Jonathan Gil Harris

Date	Friday, the 22nd of November, 2013
Time	9:00 am to 12:15 pm (followed by lunch)
Venue	Young India Fellowship campus Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, Adchini, New Delhi 110 017
Eligibility	Class XII Students
To Register	www.ashoka.edu.in/EventRegistration

Many of us suffer, or have suffered from, a fear of reading Shakespeare. His language is the main obstacle we face in understanding his plays and poems. This is not surprising: even though Shakespeare wrote in English, his English is in many ways very different from ours.

But consider the possibility that what Shakespeare says is far less important than how he says it. After all, Shakespeare wrote his plays to be heard, not read.

This workshop will give you a set of tips for how to listen to Shakespeare. By paying attention to the sounds of certain speeches from plays like The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello andThe Tempest, you will recognize how Shakespeare communicates crucial information about his characters.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to flaunt a no-fear Shakespeare!
 

About the Instructor

Prof. Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at Ashoka University and was a Professor at George Washington University, USA prior to joining Ashoka. He did his B.A. and M.A. from University of Auckland and Ph.D. from the University of Sussex. He specializes in the literature and culture of early modern England, particularly the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as European travel narratives about the early modern orient and the Americas.

Prof. Harris is also the associate editor of Shakespeare Quarterly.