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SUMMARY:Fall 2025 - Reinventing Comedy
DESCRIPTION:THE DUBUQUE SHAKESPEARE PROJECT\nat the Carnegie Stout Library\, Dubuque\, IA \nFall 2025\nREINVENTING COMEDY\nComedy to the modern audience induces laughter as opposed to drama that evokes thought and focuses on human pain. Aristotle considered characters in a comedy to be inferior versions of human beings so audiences can laugh at them. Shakespearean comedies are tales that often include pain and suffering and feature a range of characters who represent humanity in all its glory; their only unifying aspect is that they end with a restoration and continuance of societal order\, usually with a marriage or two. In the period after his poetic masterpieces Romeo and Juliet\, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Richard II\, Shakespeare’s genius was perfecting the history play while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of what a comedy could be. Even amidst plentiful laughter\, we are forced to reckon with societal fault lines and ask hard questions about privilege and power. \nWe start our series with The Merry Wives of Windsor\, a genial farce that toys with one of his greatest creations- Falstaff\, the witty fat knight from Henry IV. Notably\, it is the only full Shakespeare play to be set in contemporary England and features richly populated small town life full of smart wives\, jealous husbands\, and multiple suitors to a young maiden. From English small town shenanigans\, we move to the fairy tale-like The Merchant of Venice. Or rather two fairy tales- the Venetian Jew who wants his pound of flesh and the Belmont lady who must be won by choosing the right one of the three caskets. Long considered a problem-play\, productions and well as criticism has been dominated by the character of Shylock\, a brilliantly realized villain who takes over the comic elements. The play has been used to justify and even glorify anti-Semitism and modern production often treat it as a tragedy. In our next play\, Shakespeare invented the modern rom-com with Much Ado About Nothing; the Benedick-Beatrice hate-to-love banter is infused into every romantic comedy from It Happened One Night to Anyone But You. Misunderstandings abound with serious consequences\, tragedy uneasily coexisting with comedy and the ‘happy ending’ purchased with pain. If the previous comedies featured great women like Katherina\, Adriana\, Portia and Beatrice\, Shakespeare outdoes himself in one of his finest creations\, Rosalind in As You Like It. There is a lightness to the play set in the idyllic forest of Arden\, far from the courtroom treachery of the opening act. Romantic intrigue drives the busy plot\, but it is the superbly-drawn characters that astonish and exhilarate. \nPlays are available free online through:\nhttps://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/\n(Folger provides context for the plays in addition to providing full-text) \nSuggested Print Edition: The Norton Shakespeare. \nIn addition\, the library will have available books that provide analyses of Shakespeare’s plays and that place the plays’ plots and themes into a US/modern context. \nThrough their streaming movie service kanopy\, library patrons also will have free access to 37 film versions of the plays that are part of BBC Television Shakespeare. \nAdditional Suggested Resources\nBloom\, Harold. 1998. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Riverhead Books\nGarber\, Marjorie. 2005. Shakespeare After All. Anchor.\nGoddard\, Harold C. 1960. The Meaning of Shakespeare. University of Chicago Press.\nHattaway\, Micheal. 2003. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays. Cambridge University Press. \nSchedule for Reinventing Comedy\nSep 14\, 2025 The Merry Wives of Windsor\nOct 12\, 2025 The Merchant of Venice\nNov 9\, 2025 Much Ado About Nothing\nDec 14\, 2025 As You Like It
URL:https://shakespeare.carnegiestout.org/index.php/event/fall-2025-reinventing-comedy/
LOCATION:Carnegie-Stout Public Library\, 360 W 11th Street\, Dubuque\, IA\, 52001\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Making Of A Leader
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare first gained notice with his early histories chronicling the Wars of the Roses. When he started work on the prequels that lay the historical basis for the Wars of the Roses ending in the short triumphant reign of Henry V\, Shakespeare’s interests and talents had grown too big for any one genre. Though nominally histories\, Shakespeare questions everything from the monarchy itself and delves deep into the qualities that seem to define a successful leader. These plays gain additional resonance when we consider that they were written in the last decade of Elizabeth’s reign when questions of succession\, transfer and wielding of power and stability were all at the forefront of their thinking. \nWe start our series with King John\, where Shakespeare considers the very nature of inheriting kingship through primogeniture. Fittingly\, the invented character Bastard Faulconbridge dominates the play more than King John himself. With Richard II\, Shakespeare seems to challenge the very notion of monarchy and royal prerogative. The historical Richard II was a boy king deposed for tyranny by Henry Bolingbroke\, later Henry IV. In Shakespeare’s hands\, the play is an astonishing character study of a poet-king singularly unsuited for monarchy. The next three plays chart the growth of the dissolute Hal into English hero Henry V. In Henry IV-Part 1\, Shakespeare creates one of his greatest characters in Falstaff\, a charismatic so powerful he takes over the sequel and forced Shakespeare to create a farce around him. Often regarded as Shakespeare’s finest history\, HIV-1 transcends genre and forces us to confront our ideas of honor\, society and the self. Fathers and sons dominate the play as Shakespeare examines the ways in which sons align themselves with and rebel against their fathers in complex ways. The sequel Henry IV – Part 2 seems to repeat the same beats as the first\, as all sequels are expected to\, but has weightier concerns about law and order. The anarchic force that is Falstaff is balanced against the Chief Justice\, another father figure for Prince Hal even as his real father is dying slowly. The celebratory ending of Part 1 is countered with one of Shakespeare’s most tragic scenes at the end of Part 2 when Prince Hal ascends to King Henry V. The final play in the so-called Henriad\, Henry V\, takes on history itself even as it seems to celebrate England’s greatest king. Exceptionally balanced between warlike Harry and the contradictions between his public and private personas\, the play pays off the long saga as well as connect to the Wars of the Roses plays. \n  \nPlays are available free online through: \nhttps://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \n(Folger provides context for the plays in addition to providing full-text) \nSuggested Print Edition: The Norton Shakespeare. \n  \nIn addition\, the library will have available books that provide analyses of Shakespeare’s plays and that place the plays’ plots and themes into a US/modern context. \nThrough their streaming movie service kanopy\, library patrons also will have free access to 37 film versions of the plays that are part of BBC Television Shakespeare. \n  \nAdditional Suggested Resources \nThe Hollow Crown (2012) BBC series with Ben Whishaw\, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston playing the three kings. \n  \nBloom\, Harold. 1998. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Riverhead Books \nGarber\, Marjorie. 2005. Shakespeare After All. Anchor. \nGoddard\, Harold C. 1960. The Meaning of Shakespeare. University of Chicago Press. \nHattaway\, Micheal. 2003. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays. Cambridge University Press. \n  \nSchedule for The Making of a Leader \nJan 12\, 2025                King John \nFeb 9\, 2025                 Richard II \nMar 9\, 2025                Henry IV – Part 1 \nApr 13\, 2025               Henry IV – Part 2 \nMay 11\, 2025              Henry V
URL:https://shakespeare.carnegiestout.org/index.php/event/the-making-of-a-leader/
LOCATION:Carnegie-Stout Public Library\, 360 W 11th Street\, Dubuque\, IA\, 52001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kick-off Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us to kick-off the Dubuque Shakespeare Project! Free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.\nThis event is meant for local Shakespear enthusiasts\, arts leaders\, educators\, and anyone interested in learning more about the project and brainstorming ways to collaboratively make the Dubuque Shakespeare Project a community-wide celebration.
URL:https://shakespeare.carnegiestout.org/index.php/event/the-wars-of-the-roses/
LOCATION:Carnegie-Stout Public Library\, 360 W 11th Street\, Dubuque\, IA\, 52001\, United States
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