Shakespeare on the Couch: As You Like It

A single session on campus on Saturday 14 February, 10am - 4pm

Overview

This one-day course will focus on one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies. We will consider the significance of the forest of Arden, the powers of love, complex cross-dressing confusions and the centrality of Rosalind as the dominant character in the play. The ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech will be reconsidered as will the themes of exile and return, love and forgiveness.

Course lecturer

Dr Kathleen O’Leary has taught on Continuing Education courses for almost nine years and in that time has offered courses on European literature, Jane Austen, poetry and Shakespeare. Her work focusses on the impact that early modern/medieval writers had on not only the development of the English language, but also on how character, irony and form influenced later writers, and indeed our modern perceptions of literature.

David Rice has a BA (Hons) in Psychology, and an MA in Cultural Studies, and has taught psychology at further and higher education levels for forty years. Retired from full time education, he has been teaching part-time at Continuing Education, University of Liverpool for nearly 10 years.   

Course fee

• Standard fee: £55