Members of the Donald Freed Symposium are assigned readings on a weekly basis.
Their research results in essays and research presentations. Professor Freed expands
upon their efforts in lectures and dramatic readings from the source material presently under study.
Listed below are the subjects studied and a sampling of presented material.
Gilgamesh
Homer Part 2: Ilium's Distant Shore
Homer Part 3: The Passion of the Queen
Homer Part 4: A Gathering of Shades
The Bible
History of the Writings of the Bible
Essay on the book of Job: Pasteboard Masks
Ecclesiastes and Isaiah: Essay, An Ancient Voice
Ancient 5th Century Greece
Pericles
Euripides
Plato: Essay On Plato and Being: Shadow Dance
Republic
The Apology of Socrates: Essay on Socrates and Falstaff
Aristophanes
Shakespeare's
King Lear
Hamlet
Othello : Essay On Christian Symbolism in the play.
Henry II parts 1 & 2: Essay on Falstaff and Socrates
Light In August
Intruder In the Dust
Stendahl's The Red and Black
Trollope's The Way We Live Now
Dostoevsky's Crime &Punishment
Flannery O'Connor
WiseBlood
Carson McCullers
Member of the Wedding
Reflections in a Golden Eye
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Drieser's American Tragedy
Mann's Death in Venice: Essay, Crime and Will in Mann
Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich
Human Comedy Of Balzac
The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
The Plays of Strindberg
Sinclair Lewis: Babbit
Somone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Freud's On the Interpretation of Dreams
James Joyce's Ulysses
Marcel Proust's A la Rechere du Temps Perdu