Join Dr. Lue Douthit, Director of Research & Practice at Play On Shakespeare, and Michael P Jensen, Contributing Editor of The Shakespeare Newsletter, for an engaging series of three talks on the Shakespeare plays produced by The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2026. Meetings are every third Monday in March, April, and May.

In this talk, designed as prep before seeing the OSF production of Henry IV, Part 1, Lue Douthit takes a practical look at the historical time, how the play works structurally, and the way meaning is conveyed by that structure. Mike Jensen provides an impractical overview of where this play fits into Shakespeare’s history canon, how it came to be written, and the political pressure put on Shakespeare to change the name of the show’s most famous character.

Mark your calendars for each lecture in this series:

March 16th at 1pm for A Midsummer Night's Dream

April 20th at 1pm for Henry IV, Part 1

May 18th at 1pm for The Taming of the Shrew