COD 2018 - G945

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Tracy Chevalier's New Boy (Othello retold)

Advanced speakers of English, lovers of reading

1 sessions, start: 25-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2018
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Susana Gullco Groisman
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 500.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 25 August 2018 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Susana Gullco Groisman

She graduated with distinction in British History and Literature from the Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Dr. Joaquín V. González" and was a lecturer in Contemporary British Literature in her alma mater institution for forty years (having gone through competition to obtain tenure in 1975). She has been a guest speaker at numerous educational centres in our country. She is the former Head of the English Department at the I.S.P."J. V. González" and former President of APIBA. At present she belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre.
Advanced speakers of English, lovers of reading
To explore the contribution of literature to an understanding of areas of human concern.
This novel was commissioned by the Hogarth Press and published in 2017. A very reader-friendly novel, apt for readers ages 11 to 99.
The tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare is transposed to a 1970's suburban Washington schoolyard and the characters are 11/12 year-olds.
From general comments contributed by participants to an analysis of the main themes and characters , with reference to the classic in its basic aspects.
BLOOM, Harold. Shakespeare, the Invention of the Human. Fourth Estate Ltd, 1999
BATE, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. OUP, 2008.
BRYSON, Bill. Shakespeare. Harper Press, 2007.
CHEVALIER, Tracy. New Boy. Hogarth Shakespeare, 2017.
www.tchevalier.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/17/new-boy-by-tracy-chevalier-review-othello
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