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Programs available include: |
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Books in the Running Brooks -- his personal life |
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His Hour Upon the Stage -- his career in the theatre |
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Of Strange Shadows -- mysteries of the sonnets |
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The Purple Testament -- on peace and war |
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The Fire and the Rose -- the story of the story of the Grail |
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Root and Branch -- the principal versions, from Celtic to Romantic |
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The Fool in the Forest -- a retelling of the story of Perceval |
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The Place Where Three Roads Meet -- the Oedipus legend in myth and drama |
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In the House of Atreus -- a storytelling version of Aeschylus' Orestes trilogy |
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In Search of Dionysus -- the strangest god, in history, legend and theatre |
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Things Discovered in the Deep -- Yeats, love and the supernatural |
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The Cave of the Chimaera -- W.B. Yeats in the theatre |
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Daybreak and a Candle-end -- Yeats in Irish history |
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James Joyce -- prose excerpts from the short stories, novels, letters and poems |
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Such Morning Songs -- the life and work of Dylan Thomas |
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Through the Eyes of a Country Doctor -- The short stories of Anton Chekhov |
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T.S. Eliot -- readings with commentary from The Waste Land, Four Quartets, The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral |
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W.H. Auden -- selections from his collected poems, with commentary |
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Bertolt Brecht -- a reading of his poetry with biographical comment, and excerpts from his hearing before the House Un-American Activities Committe (HUAC) |
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Suddenly Without Thinking -- the poetry of e.e. cummings |
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A Little Bit of British Wit -- a sampling of British humor, with articulate absurdity from Oscar Wilde, Edward Lear, Charles Dickens, P.G. Wodehouse, Flanders & Swann, and Beyond the Fringe |
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These programs were originally developed and presented under the auspices of the Oregon Council on the the Humanities' Chautauqua Program. All programs are the copyright of Keith Scales. |