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The University of the Third Age - Welwyn Hatfield

Shakespeare study group

Group Leader - Sam Segar, telephone: 01707 645647, mobile: 07931 784 288, email: sam@s-segar.co.uk

Meetings are held 2pm-4pm, on the 4th Wednesday of each month, at 139, The Ryde, Hatfield.

In the Shakespeare Group we read the plays aloud as in the playreading group, watching a DVD of each scene or Act when we finish studying it; and discuss it. We plan to read all the plays, in order of their composition (or, for the histories, of historical chronology). We are now studying Macbeth.

Meeting Dates for 2026

• January 28
• February 25
• March 25
• April 22
• May 27
• June 24
• July 22
• August 26
• September 23
• October 28
• November 25

The plays we have read so far are –

• The Comedy of Errors
• Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Taming of the Shrew
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Life and Death of King John
• Richard II
• Henry IV parts 1 and 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI part 1
• Henry VI part 2
• Henry Vi part 3
• Richard III
• The Merchant of Venice
• As You Like It
• Coriolanus
• Julius Caesar
• Anthony & Cleopatra
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Twelfth Night