Kerry BrownB.A. Colgate University
M.A. Middlebury College
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Kerry Brown taught Shakespeare to high school students for 45 years, and more recently, to adults at the Snow and Eldredge Public Libraries.
Four Classes
10:30 – 12:00
Oct. 18, 25; Nov. 8, 15
(No class on November 1)
A history, a political document, and a moving tragedy, Richard II marks the beginning of Shakespeares’s attempt to define England’s national character and the qualities that make a good king and leader. Richard is deeply flawed and unjust, yet his fate is moving and his voice, poetic. We will discuss these complex human and historical cross currents.