Digital Forum Academy: Shakespeare Deep Dive
Back by popular demand! Study up on each of the Shakespeare plays coming to the stage in Stratford's 2026 season. Pull your tights up and leap with merriment into the text to explore genre, Shakespeare’s sources, his dramatic structure, and explore central images and motifs. Over this three-week online series, you'll read the full text of the play, contextualizing it within Shakespeare’s life and times through guided instruction and class discussion with Professor Jonathan Ullyot.
No experience is required, except an interest (and maybe love) of Shakespeare. Each series is a maximum of 15 students and will offer the same content.
Jonathan Ullyot is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, earned a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and teaches literature at the Universities of Toronto and Chicago and Seneca College.
Othello: Race Jealousy and the Enigma of Evil
Explore Shakespeare's most "soap-operatic" tragedy, which delves into issues of race and the nature of evil. We'll discuss the genre of tragedy, Shakespeare's sources, his progressive ideas about race, and his creation of a radically evil character.
This Digital Forum Academy series is being presented twice and will offer the same content. Each Series consists of three online seminars that take place weekly and three pre-recorded lectures. A digital copy of the text will be provided. Seminar dates are non-interchangeable across the Series. Please choose from:
Othello: Series A, Beginning March 11
- Seminar 1: Wednesday, March 11 | 4 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
- Seminar 2: Wednesday, March 18 | 4 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
- Seminar 3: Wednesday, March 25 | 4 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
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