Knosh and Knowledge
Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love and Shakespeare
Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Michelle Ephraim’s quest to become a Shakespeare scholar and to find community and home. As she studies Shakespeare, Ephraim’s world uncannily begins to mirror the story of the Jewish daughter in The Merchant of Venice, and she finds herself in a Green World, an idyllic place where Shakespeare’s heroines escape their family trauma. Green World reckons with global, historical, and personal tragedy and shows how literature—comic and tragic—can help us brave every kind of anguish.
Green World received the 2023 Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction from the University of Massachusetts Press, a national book award.
This monthly Knosh and Knowledge program sponsored by Jewish Federation of the Berkshires is held at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire.
Michelle Ephraim is a Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She’s the author of Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage and co-author of Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas.
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