Phenomenal Shakespeare Course: Through the Looking Glass of Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction January 22, 2013

This new Shakespeare course will illuminate the plays using various philosophical perspectives from the Modern to the Postmodern. We will also consider what philosophers such as Hegel and Schopenhauer have had to say about the Bards ideas on love, power, human nature, art, the existential hero, tragic madness, mythic consciousness, and much more. We will start with Shakespeares two narrative poems: 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece'. Both poems establish a symbolic order which can be traced through the development of many of the plays. Some of the works we will consider in detail are: 'Measure for Measure'; 'Twelfth Night'; 'As You Like It'; 'Henry IV'; 'Julius Caesar'; 'Antony and Cleopatra'; and 'Macbeth'. Details of this event may be subject to change. Please visit http://cce.sydney.edu.au/course/psha for more information or to register.

Official Website: http://cce.sydney.edu.au/course/PSHA