1600 Gerrard St E
Toronto, ON M4L 2A5
Canada
How the Scientific Art of Swordsmanship is a Key to Understanding the Cultural Context and Cosmology of Shakespeare’s dramatic devices and language.
This dynamic presentation will use the principles of scientific Renaissance swordplay as the doorway to begin a journey that builds our understanding of the application of the Trivium (the verbal arts of Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric) and Quadrivium (the mathematical arts of Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Astronomy) to teach the Seven Liberal Arts. Possessing this knowledge, we can better explore and understand Shakespeare’s language, analogies, classical references and Cosmology. Building our level of understanding progressively, we can then analyze the motivations of Shakespeare’s characters and how to help our audience better understand and experience the intended effects that the author hoped to have of them.
The class will use physical and scientific demonstrations, readings and references from Shakespeare’s plays, and audience participation, input and questions to drive our learning. At the end of the session all attendees should have a significantly greater depth of knowledge from the perspective of the characters, which will infuse the delivery of Shakespeare’s speech and the portrayal of his characters with additional subtlety, and therefore, will better to involve the audience.
This class is open to both participation and auditing (no physical participation is required). Attendees need only bring their enthusiasm and questions.
Date: June 10, 2018
Time: 10 am to 5 pm, with appropriate breaks
Location: Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard St. E., Toronto, ON, east of Greenwood
Price: Participants: $170 ($136 for CAEA discount)
Auditors: $50 ($40 for CAEA discount)
To register, email mail~at~siobhanrichardson.com, or use the contact form.
About the Instructor: Bob Charron
Photo of Bob Charron by Dahlia Katz Photography
Bob Charron has been researching the Martial Arts, Military, Education System and Cosmology of the Middle Ages and Renaissance for over 30 years. He has used his experience and training as a professional educator and martial artist to share his passion for the understanding of these subjects with students in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.
Bob is the primary instructor of St. Martin’s Academy of Historical European Martial Arts, which is a research and learning organization devoted to learning Medieval and Renaissance European martial arts using martially sound methods drawn directly from primary sources and in the context of the culture that created them. Their primary curriculum is based on Fiore dei Liberi’s Flower of Battle (1409) and George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defense (1599). Their approach is to assume that these masters were all teaching the same ancient and comprehensive Martial Arts System used to preserve one’s life, and in order to properly teach and understand the system it must be taught along with the context of ancient and Medieval academics, physics and cosmology. St. Martin’s Academy teaches and demonstrates this ancient European martial art, as well as Medieval academics, cosmology and culture to universities, preparatory schools, martial arts academies, historical reenactment groups and the public at large.
Testimonials
Photo of Bob Charron and Siobhan Richardson by Dahlia Katz Photography
“Without a doubt, Bob is one of the best Western Martial Artists with whom I have had the pleasure to work.”
– Dr. John Lennox, Art of Combat
“He takes the study of martial arts as a whole and looks to understand the implications of how all the Western martial arts work together to make a complete system. ”
– Steaphen Fick, Davenriche European Martial Artes School
“I would heartily recommend him for anyone looking for a unique diversion for their event, but even more for those earnestly interested in mastering the art of swordplay. ”
– Thomas Rowland MA, St. Louis University
To register, email mail~at~siobhanrichardson.com, or use the contact form.
Date: June 10, 2018
Time: 10 am to 5 pm, with appropriate breaks
Location: Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard St. E., Toronto, ON, east of Greenwood
Price: Participants: $170 ($136 for CAEA discount)
Auditors: $50 ($40 for CAEA discount)