St. John’s Summer Academy (Annapolis): A Week with Shakespeare

An admirer of Shakespeare once claimed that “Shakespeare cannot be measured.” At St. John’s Shakespeare’s immeasurability makes it impossible to predict where our conversations about his works will lead. Will we discuss how humans might best respond to suffering, or why romance makes fools of us? How to tell the difference between madness and sanity, or what conscience is? Or how gender works? Or…? With the gentle guidance of a faculty member, students themselves will shape their encounter with Shakespeare’s immeasurability, studying together one comedy, one tragedy, and several sonnets.