Too Much of a Good Thing: London Pictures!

August 8, 2010

London Pictures!

Inside Her Majesty's Theatre

So happy to see such a great performance!

Her Majesty's Theatre

The London Eye

London Skyline

Southbank at night

The London Eye at night

I am so going to miss this city!

Most of our group on the Eye

View from the Eye

Wish I could take it as a souvenir :)

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Summer Classes

Shakespeare in Performance
As much fun as, and more accurate than, Shakespeare in Love, this course will involve the study of three to four Shakespearean plays, focusing on the performance of these plays during Shakespeare’s time as well as our own. Students will read and perform a selection of plays and all students on the program will attend a Royal Shakespeare Company production of As You Like It in Stratford-Upon-Avon, as well as a performance of Henry IV, Part I at the Globe Theatre in London.

Man-Eating Monsters and Marvel-Filled Maps
Headless men, man-eating monsters, dragons, serpents and basilisks—wherever we cast our gaze in the corpus of medieval visual culture—on maps, in Bibles, the facades of castles and cathedrals, on clothes and candlesticks—we find monsters. England, the place where the majority of monster-filled maps was produced, is the ideal setting in which to consider the constructed identities of the medieval English (who saw themselves as inhabiting the edge of the world) and their image making practices. The course readings are drawn from art history, primary sources in translation, and theoretical texts, enhanced by manuscript viewing when possible. The course excursion is to Ely where students will witness, first-hand, the “monsters” in the historic Norman cathedral.