All Program Dates

• March 25, 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

• April 1, 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

• April 8, 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

• April 15, 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

• April 22, 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

Registration

• Tuition for this course is $275. Members receive exclusive discounts on our programs and courses. Not a member? Learn more.

• Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email rsvp@rosenbach.org.

• This program is for those 18 and older.

• Registration opens for Delancey Society members on Friday, November 14, for Rosenbach members on Friday, November 21, and for the general public on Wednesday, November 26.

Description

There is a recurring pattern in several of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and romances: the characters move out from a court that is seething with rivalry, ambition, and paranoia to a rural world—a forest, heath, or pastoral world—in which a journey of self-discovery, either comic or tragic, takes place. This course will explore this theme in three plays: the perfectly formed comedy As You Like It, the searing tragedy King Lear, and the graceful romance The Winter’s Tale. Along the way, we will discover that the virtues of the green world speak especially powerfully to us today in a time of division and disruption in both the social and the natural environments.  

Instructor

Sir Jonathan Bate, Regents Professor of Literature and Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University, and former Provost of Worcester College, Oxford University, is one of the world’s leading Shakespeare scholars and the author of twenty books including The Genius of Shakespeare, Soul of the Age, How the Classics Made Shakespeare, and the Royal Shakespeare Company edition of the complete works.