Spring 2013 - Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Front row seats!

Ambreen, Rachel, & Jean

Kerry, Molly, Jessica & Tara 

Top: Colleen & Anna

Bottom: Lucy, Clare & LWA

HUST huddle

Our annual trip into Chicago landed squarely and appropriately in the middle of HUST week this year. The entire cohort of HUST majors was able to attend, making this year's trip especially memorable--well, that, and the shell casings and fake blood raining down on us from the stage (Julius Caesar...lots of fighting).

HUST hits the Chi-town

Images from our semi-annual trip to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Notre Dame Shakespeare

Shakespeare season has begun again at Notre Dame. Check out the summer schedule for Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, and the Shakespeare-inspired Kiss Me Kate.

HUST hits Chicago

Recently, five Humanistic Studies majors joined Prof. Laura Williamson Ambrose on a trip to Chicago to see the Chicago Shakespeare Company's performance of The Taming of the Shrew. The group also met up with two of our fabulous alums: Carolyn Maltby and Molly Anne Gainey. The trip was organized by Prof. Chris Cobb in the English Department.

To be or not to be...Shakespeare?

Hilary Mantel, author of the Booker Prize winning novel, Wolf Hall, reviews Shakespeare scholar, James Shapiro's, new book, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? in The Guardian. Both Mantel and Shapiro have hit it big in the "crossover" market of highly popular, academically sound works on the early modern period in England. Mantel's novel tells the story of Anne Boleyn's rise and fall from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell; Shapiro's 1599 accounts for a pivotal year in the life of Shakespeare. All of these find company with Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World, coincidentally published around the same time as 1599.

HUST Goes to the Shakespeare Theater, Fall 2009

Humanistic Studies majors attended the Chicago Shakespeare Company's production of Richard III in October, 2009.