William Congreve's The Way of the World
Thursdays, May 14 and 21, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, Sobrato Community Conference Center,San José, Fee: $25
| When |
May 14, 2009 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm |
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| Where | Sobrato Community Conference Center, San José |
This production is by Mountain View's Pear Avenue Theatre, www.thepear.org. Production dates are May 8 - 31. You may wish to attend the first class session and arrange to attend the play with others in the class. Purchasing tickets and choice of performance is up to you.
Comedy and sexual intrigue combine in this masterpiece of the Restoration period, staged to reflect the dangerous liaisons of our own celebrity-obsessed culture. William Congreve wrote some of the most popular English plays of the late 17th century Restoration. By the age of thirty, he had written four comedies, including Love of Love and The Way of the World and one tragedy, The Mourning Bride. Unfortunately, his writing career ended early. Public tastes turned against the sort of high-brow sexual comedy of manners in which he specialized and he turned into politics.
Note: Text of The Way of the World is available online, in public libraries and through book sellers (brick and online).
George Moore, SJSU emeritus professor of humanities and history, teaches a popular OLLI seminar on reading the classics each term. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and continues to teach in the SJSU history department.
