OLLI101642 - Exploring Heritage as we Confront Playwrights Across History

Course Description

Exploring Heritage as we Confront Playwrights Across History

Instructor: Lyle Murley

Day of the Week: Tuesday

Dates: Feb 4 – April 8 (no class March 4)

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Location: In-person at TUCC

Students will read and discuss a play each week of the semester—two Greek tragedies, three Shakespeare plays, two Ibsen ones, and three American plays. Our intent will be to hear artists as they created works they wanted us to experience. On the first meeting, February 4, we will discuss Euripides’s play Medea; on the eleventh, we will discuss Sophocles’s play Philoctetes, which will be followed by Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida on February 18.

Maximum: 30

Instructor Bio: Lyle Murley, PhD, English, Northwestern University; MA, English, University of Chicago; BA English, St. Olaf College. Lyle was a professor of English at California Lutheran University, chair of the department, and now a professor emeritus. He was professor of the year on two occasions and received the Sears Roebuck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence.

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