Program Highlights
Group at Anne Hathaway's cottage.
Student Spotlight
Mitch Raftery greets Prince Charles during a parade on the streets of Stratford.
June 10–July 1, 2013
This course can be taken to fulfill both the Core ELAW requirement (Experiencing Liberal Arts in the World) and an elective in English.
"Summer Shakespeare: Billy’s Kitchen" is a study tour
designed to provide students an up-close-and-personal relationship with the
Bard and his work within the literal and metaphoric context of consumption. Amid many of the same buildings in which
Shakespeare slept, read, wrote, dreamed, desired, hoped, argued, and loved—and,
yes, also ate—students study and attend five or six major dramatic productions
of Shakespeare’s time, comparing their observations with those of
world-renowned scholars and actors at the Shakespeare Centre and the Royal
Shakespeare Company theaters in Stratford-upon-Avon, with an additional field
trip to the Globe Theatre in London. In
addition, students consider how Shakespeare's plays as well as his name and
image are "consumed," both in terms of food and food imagery and in
terms of British culinary culture. In
the end, this tour affords students not only an intimate knowledge of the most
famous writer in English but a clear understanding of Shakespeare’s relevance
to their own lives—including at their own tables.
Pre-req's: a 200-level English class or permission of the instructor
SMCM student Kate Walters meets Dame Judi Dench after a public reading in Stratford.
