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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!
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.
**This group is meeting virtually on Zoom for an invitation to join email shane.m@left-bank.com**
2022 Reading List
Tuesday, January 18th, 7pm: Henry V by William Shakespeare
Tuesday, February 15th, 7pm: A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
Tuesday, March 15th, 7pm: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Tuesday, April 19th, 7pm: The War of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
Tuesday, May 17th, 7pm: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Tuesday, June 21st, 7pm: How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
Tuesday, July 19th, 7pm: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Tuesday, August 16th, 7pm: William Shakespeare's The Merry Rise of Skywalker: Star Wars Part the Ninth by Ian Doescher
Tuesday, September 20th, 7pm: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Tuesday, October 18th, 7pm: Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro
Tuesday, November 15th, 7pm: The Sonnets and Other Poems by William Shakespeare
(we will be reading 'The Rape of Lucrece' by Shakespeare and sonnets #21-25)
Tuesday, December 20th, 7pm: Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy by Paula Marantz Cohen
Next Year: 2023
What we've read before: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, The Plays We've Read
