Shakespeare Book Club Launches with "The Tempest"

Press release

Capital Classics
Shakespeare Book Club
2024-2025 / Season 11

This month's selection!

The Tempest

Monday, October 7 from 6:30 to 7:45 pm

at Noah Webster Library in West Hartford

or via Zoom.

For the 2024-2025 season of the Capital Classics “Shakespeare Book Club,” in this American election year, the theme of Power Plays & Players seemed an appropriate and timely examination of Shakespeare’s stories of the players of power and how the seats of power are exchanged. The season will examine 8 of Shakespeare’s plays that do so, some based on historical events and some taking place in imaginary worlds. All of them thoughtfully and powerfully reveal human behavior in those moments when power is gained, and lost!

These sessions are led by Capital Classics Co-Founder and Artistic Associate Geoffrey Sheehan. Mark your calendar for these lively examinations of Shakespeare's work. You do not need to have read the plays to enjoy the conversation (but it helps)!

The Season’s Plays:

• November 4: King Richard II
• December 2: Henry IV, Part 1
• January 6: Henry IV, Part 2
• February 3: Henry VI, Part 3
• March 3: As You Like It
• April 7: Timon of Athens
• May 5: Julius Caesar

Be sure to email info@capitalclassics.org or bard@westhartfordlibrary.org to be added to the Book Club invite list. That way, you can get the monthly event details and/or Zoom login information.

A NOTE ON PARKING: Your Isham Garage parking will be validated in the Library Meeting Room before the discussion. Please go directly from the parking garage (bypass the garage kiosks) to the library meeting room to validate your parking using your license plate number. Parking must be validated at the library within 15 minutes of leaving your car.

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