GE2024-07
Required Reading:
Filled with true devotion
Young love, our love
We share with deep emotion”
- Young Love by Sonny James
No other work of literature explores this theme more cogently than Shakespeare’s play on the two star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. It may well be the most widely read Shakespearian play, and moved generations of young men and women over the centuries. It has also spawned many adaptations in different artistic media - including opera, musicals and films – as well as reimaginations in a more modern context – one such is, of course, West Side Story, one of the most successful musicals ever.
In this book club, you will, in enriching your reading experience, be able to enjoy the full screening of the opera Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod (in French with sub-titles), performed at The Metropolitan Opera of New York, as well as the filmed version of West Side Story, which won 10 Oscars including “Best Picture”. There will also be other audiovisual elements to stimulate your senses.
The edition of Romeo and Juliet we have chosen for your reading pleasure puts Shakespeare’s language side-by-side with a facing page of translation into modern English, so that you will have no difficulty in reading and understanding the dialogue. The version of West Side Story is a “novelization” by Irving Shulman, based on the Broadway musical screen play.
Host: Mr. Peter Lai 黎慶寧先生 (Honorary Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, HKU)
Dates: 21/09, 28/09, 05/10, 12/10 & 26/10/2024 (Sat)
Time: 15:00 – 17:30 (for 21/09, 05/10, 12/10 & 26/10); 16:30 - 20:00 (for 28/09 only)
Venue: GE Gatherland 240 (MB240, 2/F, Main Building, HKU) & CPD. 2.58, The Jockey Club Tower
Fee: $200 (Enrolled students will receive the paperback edition of both books. A deposit of $100 will be refunded upon full attendance.)
Quota: 10
Registration:
https://onlinepytsysprd.feo.hku.hk/event/110946?code=82510b9a2ef045a1968fc2aed2c4e7ec
- Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare
- West Side Story
Filled with true devotion
Young love, our love
We share with deep emotion”
- Young Love by Sonny James
No other work of literature explores this theme more cogently than Shakespeare’s play on the two star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. It may well be the most widely read Shakespearian play, and moved generations of young men and women over the centuries. It has also spawned many adaptations in different artistic media - including opera, musicals and films – as well as reimaginations in a more modern context – one such is, of course, West Side Story, one of the most successful musicals ever.
In this book club, you will, in enriching your reading experience, be able to enjoy the full screening of the opera Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod (in French with sub-titles), performed at The Metropolitan Opera of New York, as well as the filmed version of West Side Story, which won 10 Oscars including “Best Picture”. There will also be other audiovisual elements to stimulate your senses.
The edition of Romeo and Juliet we have chosen for your reading pleasure puts Shakespeare’s language side-by-side with a facing page of translation into modern English, so that you will have no difficulty in reading and understanding the dialogue. The version of West Side Story is a “novelization” by Irving Shulman, based on the Broadway musical screen play.
Host: Mr. Peter Lai 黎慶寧先生 (Honorary Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, HKU)
Dates: 21/09, 28/09, 05/10, 12/10 & 26/10/2024 (Sat)
Time: 15:00 – 17:30 (for 21/09, 05/10, 12/10 & 26/10); 16:30 - 20:00 (for 28/09 only)
Venue: GE Gatherland 240 (MB240, 2/F, Main Building, HKU) & CPD. 2.58, The Jockey Club Tower
Fee: $200 (Enrolled students will receive the paperback edition of both books. A deposit of $100 will be refunded upon full attendance.)
Quota: 10
Registration:
https://onlinepytsysprd.feo.hku.hk/event/110946?code=82510b9a2ef045a1968fc2aed2c4e7ec
Schedule:
| Date | Time | Venue |
| 21 Sep 2024 | 15:00 - 17:30 | GE Gatherland 240 (MB240, 2/F, Main Building, HKU) |
| 28 Sep 2024 | 16:30 - 20:00 | CPD. 2.58, The Jockey Club Tower |
| 05 Oct 2024 | 15:00 - 17:30 | GE Gatherland 240 (MB240, 2/F, Main Building, HKU) |
| 12 Oct 2024 | 15:00 - 17:30 | GE Gatherland 240 (MB240, 2/F, Main Building, HKU) |
| 26 Oct 2024 | 15:00 - 17:30 | GE Gatherland 240 (MB240, 2/F, Main Building, HKU) |
Bio of Instructor(s) 導師簡介:
 | Mr. Peter Lai 黎慶寧先生 After graduating with first-class honours at HKU in 1973, Mr. Lai joined the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer. From 1985 Mr. Lai was almost continuously engaged in Sino-British negotiations on the future arrangements for Hong Kong and was appointed a Member of the Sino-British Land Commission (1991 – 1994). In late 1994 he was appointed the first 'local' Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Government. He left the civil service on 1 August 1998. Mr. Lai is an Honorary Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, HKU. |