Reading Group books are available from Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO at a 20% discount.
The Magnificoes! are interested and interesting folks who gather once a month to talk plays, poems, criticism, history, and fiction! The group began in May of 2012 just in time for that year’s production of Othello #InTheGlen by Shakespeare Festival St. Louis. Our long-term goal is to read all of the plays in the canon (38 of them) while enjoying the many creative works written that illuminate, complicate, and build on them. By December, we’ll have read 28 of the plays; our plan is to finish the canon in 2020.
2018 marks our 3rd year performing a staged reading as part of Shake 38! This year we’ll bring King John to the bookstore on April 20th at 7:00pm.
If you are interested in joining this group or have any other questions, please email Shane shane.m@left-bank.com
We usually meet the third Tuesday of every month.
2020 Reading List
January 21st, 2020, 7pm: Timon of Athens
February 18th, 2020, 7pm: Year of the King by Antony Sher
March 17th, 2020, 7pm: selection moved to May
April 21st, 2020, 7pm: Measure for Measure
May 19th, 7pm: Shakespeare & Co. by Stanley Wells
June 16th, 7pm: Quality of Mercy by Peter Brook
July 21st, 7pm: Merry Wives of Windsor & Much Ado About Nothing
August 18th, 7pm: Troilus & Cressida
September 15th, 7pm: Fools & Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
October 20th, 7pm: Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare & John Fletcher
November 17th, 7pm: Cardenio
December 15th, 7pm: Comedy of Errors
What we've read before: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, The Plays We've Read
