Players on a Cosmic Stage: The Grammar of Nature in Shakespeare (Mini-Class)
Price range: $120.00 through $295.00
We all know of The Great Bard, Shakespeare. We are all at least vaguely familiar with the natural world that surrounds us. It may be the case, though, that a relationship with the one actually relies at least partially upon a relationship with the other. The plays of Shakespeare are full of a common language of the land: birds, flowers, streams, seas, and mountains. The Bard wrote plays made for a stage in the theater called “The Globe,” and his was an age that saw this globe we now live on as part of a cosmic dance. We do not understand Shakespeare, because we do not understand how his audience would have viewed the natural world. But this is a cosmic literacy that we can regain.
Join Ella Hornstra in a six session mini class spanning the weeks of July 6th-17th that will look at three plays: King Lear, A Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. There is a language writ large in the world around us, and it is a part of our human heritage to learn to read it. Shakespeare’s audience understood this. We will begin to see that the stage a play is set to is a microcosm of the life that is played out on the great stage of the earth, and that stories live on in the world around us through the common language of the natural world that has spanned the time between ourselves and the Bard. Oh, and every flower and every tree is intentional and always has been.
As the melancholy Jaques once famously noted in As You Like It:
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts…”
Instructor: Ella Hornstra
Meet Time:This mini-class runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, beginning on Monday, July 6th, and ending on Friday, July 17th. Sessions start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. The live sessions and recordings will be made available with lifetime access in your HHL customer account.
Individual Price: $120 (Non-Refundable)
Family Price for 3 or more students: $295 (Non-Refundable)
How to access the class: After purchase, the link to the live sessions as well as the eventual recordings of the mini-class will be made available in the customer’s HHL account under “My Courses” with lifetime access.
Description
We all know of The Great Bard, Shakespeare. We are all at least vaguely familiar with the natural world that surrounds us. It may be the case, though, that a relationship with the one actually relies at least partially upon a relationship with the other. The plays of Shakespeare are full of a common language of the land: birds, flowers, streams, seas, and mountains. The Bard wrote plays made for a stage in the theater called “The Globe,” and his was an age that saw this globe we now live on as part of a cosmic dance. We do not understand Shakespeare, because we do not understand how his audience would have viewed the natural world. But this is a cosmic literacy that we can regain.
Join Ella Hornstra in a six session mini class spanning the weeks of July 6th-17th that will look at three plays: King Lear, A Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. There is a language writ large in the world around us, and it is a part of our human heritage to learn to read it. Shakespeare’s audience understood this. We will begin to see that the stage a play is set to is a microcosm of the life that is played out on the great stage of the earth, and that stories live on in the world around us through the common language of the natural world that has spanned the time between ourselves and the Bard. Oh, and every flower and every tree is intentional and always has been.
As the melancholy Jaques once famously noted in As You Like It:
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts…”
Instructor: Ella Hornstra
Meet Time:This mini-class runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, beginning on Monday, July 6th, and ending on Friday, July 17th. Sessions start at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. The live sessions and recordings will be made available with lifetime access in your HHL customer account.
Individual Price: $120 (Non-Refundable)
Family Price for 3 or more students: $295 (Non-Refundable)
How to access the class: After purchase, the link to the live sessions as well as the eventual recordings of the mini-class will be made available in the customer’s HHL account under “My Courses” with lifetime access.
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