Great Books Roundtable Discussion Schedule

Summer 2010-Spring 2011

Great Books Roundtable Discussions are held Wednesdays, from 7:00 - 9:00 pm, in Special Collections, Fourth Floor, Golda Meir Library (unless otherwise noted).

June 30, 2010
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Rappacini's Daughter" (1844)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/260/1/
"The Great Stone Face" (1850)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/726/1/
"Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure" (1838)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/192/1/

July 28, 2010
Plato
Hippias Major (early 4th century BCE)
http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/plato/plato-hippias-major.asp

August 25
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Over-Soul (1841)
http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-1st_Series_09_The_Over-Soul.htm
[NOTE: will be held in Curtin Hall, Room 839, rather than Special Collections]

September 29
James Joyce
"After the Race" (1914)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/346/1/
"Clay" (1914)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/351/1/
"Ivy Day in the Committee Room" (1914)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/353/1/

October 27
Marina Carr
By the Bog of Cats (a 1998 retelling of Euripides's Medea)
OPTIONAL: See the UWM Mainstage production of By the Bog of Cats, directed by Michelle Lopez-Rios, October 27-31.

December 1
Molière (translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur)
Lovers' Quarrels (1656; 2005 translation)
OPTIONAL: See the UWM Mainstage production of Lovers' Quarrels, directed by Bill Watson, December 8-12.

January 26
Selections from the Indian epic classic, The Ramayana. (4th century BCE)

February 23
Stephen Adly Guirgis
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2005)
OPTIONAL: See the UWM Mainstage production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, directed by Rebecca Holderness, March 9-12.

March 30
Willa Cather
"Paul's Case" (1906)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/999/1/
"A Wagner Matinee" (1904)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/1017/1/
Susan Glaspell
"A Jury of Her Peers" (1917)
http://www.classicreader.com/book/3139/1/

April 27
John Stuart Mill
First two chapters of Utilitarianism (1861)
Chapter 1: "General Remarks"
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mill/john_stuart/m645u/chapter1.html
Chapter 2: "What Utilitarianism Is"
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mill/john_stuart/m645u/chapter2.html

May 25
William Shakespeare
King Lear (between 1603 and 1606)
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/lear/full.html
[NOTE: will be held in Curtin Hall, Room 839, rather than Special Collections]