Descriptions of our class series are listed below, but after reading those, you may like our letters on Shakespeare, just click here and see where it goes.

Shakespeare Is Catholic

Few people realize the greatest poet the English language has ever known was a fervent Catholic on a mission to share truth with English masses denied the mass. Until now. Please join us as we explore this great artist and understand the Catholic history behind the stories that have entertained the world for centuries. As we hear Shakespeare, we'll learn about ourselves, including what it means to be American and Catholic today. And we'll possibly discover our mission for the 21st Century.

The series is for both Shakespeare newbies and Shakespeare lovers alike.

Comedies with Gravities

Our 2nd series dives deeper into Shakespeare's comedies. Studying Shakespeare is a 3-fold opportunity to learn world history, church teachings, and Shakespeare's masterful skills as a Catholic storyteller. Truly, his comedies are filled with gravities as his comedies preserve England's Catholic testimony during a time of terrible tyranny.

Please join us as we learn principles by which to hear Shakespeare.

Warning: sobering reality comes cloaked in hilarity. Let those with ears to hear hear Shakespeare.

Tragedies against Blasphemies

When the English State demanded control of the universal Church, we have the first fissures in English civil society. The best protection Englishmen had against an overreaching State (a free Church) was removed. Government oppression multiplied. False oaths, broken promises, and government propaganda flourished as the people’s rights and freedoms diminished. Into this situation steps a rebel writer composing timeless literature reminding the people of their great Catholic heritage. Into this situation steps Shakespeare to war against devilish blasphemies.

Let us hear his poetic voice of reason in his fight against tyranny and his mission to remind an island nation to keep the faith and cherish the ancient religion that built their once great kingdom.

Let us hear Shakespeare.

Histories confront Tyranny

Our last series ends with Shakespeare's banned Catholic histories. Why banned? Because they were too Catholic. This was a serious sin against a totalitarian government seeking to swiftly root out the nation's rich Catholic heritage. Shakespeare's English histories are so filled with well placed Catholic testimony that government censors created laws to curb his message. Thankfully, by now, we know they couldn't. They simply changed the details of how he executed his strategy. Banned from writing English histories, he turned his eyes to Roman tragedies and Italian comedies among other scintillating stories and well told tales.

Let us study how his mission began with a deeper dive into Shakespeare's histories. And let us continue to follow his dear friends' advice to…

"Read him, therefore; and again, and again. And if then, you do not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger not to understand him."