Most of the Guild's 2014 programs occurred at the NATIONAL ARTS CLUB, but
events also took place at THE PLAYERS, at the PRINCETON CLUB OF NEW YORK,
at the HILL CENTER ON CAPITOL HILL, and at the WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
CLUB in Washington.
We opened the year with CUNY professor RICHARD
MCCOY, who shared his thoughts about what "faith" means in Shakespeare's
plays. We then spoke with New York Times reporter SARAY
LYALL about some of the differences between British and American culture,
with Folger biographer STEPHEN H. GRANT
about what he has referred to as a literary menage-a-trois, with Yale professor
DAVID KASTAN about teaching early modern
classics to today's undergraduates, with lexicographer PAUL
DICKSON about the words and phrases we owe to Shakespeare and other
writers, with actors STACY KEACH and EDWARD
GERO about their roles in an acclaimed production of the two parts of
Henry IV. and with ADAM GOPNIK
about some of his recent articles in the New Yorker.
In September we helped launch the U.S. book tour for Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh,
a long-awaited biography of Tennessee Williams by the New Yorker's
JOHN LAHR. We then proceeded to conversations
with JOHN HEILPERN, a Vanity
Fair columnist who shared reflections about his work with such dramatic
luminaries as John Osborne and Peter Brook, with Cal State Fullerton's KAY
STANTON, who offered a feminist perspective on Shakespeare's "Whores,"
with former Harvard President NEIL
L. RUDENSTEIN, who discussed the narrative arc he finds in Shakespeare's
Sonnets, and with lexicographer AMMON
SHEA, who defended usage patterns that are often derogated as "Bad English."
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