New course for Spring 2025

Shakespeare’s Monsters: Shylock & Caliban

Mondays, 9:30-11:00pm Eastern Time 10 Sessions: January 27-March 31 $1250 (educator discounts available) Taught by Aaron Tugendhaft

In this seminar, participants will study two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays: “The Merchant of Venice” and “The Tempest.” Special attention will be paid to Shylock and Caliban — two social outsiders who are also the only characters in Shakespeare who wear gaberdine.

Past Abarbanel Online Seminars

  • Plato's Republic

  • Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise

  • Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed