Literary Classics Book Discussion

This program will be held at FCL-Farmington Hills in Conference Room A located at 32737 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48335

Registration requested

Our Literary Classics Book Discussion is for personal enrichment.  We will be discussing books & other literature that are the foundations of our literary heritage.  The group will explore in depth literary masterpieces to which we were (or were not) exposed to in high school or college, that we at that time, were probably not experienced enough to understand or truly appreciate.  Also, the group is for those curious about titles/authors heard of but never read.  The intent of this discussion group is to enjoy the writings of great authors and thinkers and have some fun in the process.  

The first book we will discuss is William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar.

From the book club facilitator Greg:

The Elizabethan Age had a fascination with stories of Greek and Roman mythology, as well as actual histories of notable Romans and Greeks. Shakespeare wrote several plays placed in ancient Greece and Rome. The play Julius Caesar is based upon facts derived from sources written during that historical time and shortly after these events took place. I find it one of the more easily accessible of his plays. His characters are involved in universal themes of ambition, idealism, envy, political drama, and the power of rhetoric. Many lines have become part of everyday usage and there is much drama here that can be translated into our current age.  

Copies will be available at at the Library's Information desk beginning in mid-May.