Shakespeare: The author or not? | News-JournalOnline.com
Ron Song Destro, founding director of the Oxford Shakespeare Company in New York and a new DeLand resident, says Jaques — ever the cynic — is one of the Shakespearian characters with whom he most...
View ArticleHappy 450th Birthday, William Shakespeare | OPEN, The News and Discussion...
Why read Shakespeare? Why see a Shakespeare play? Why have human beings for more than 400 years sought nourishment from Shakespeare’s work? What makes Shakespeare, Shakespeare? Why have and do so many...
View ArticleLiteracy, families and learning: Getting Children of All Ages Excited About...
I’ve written previously on this blog about the value of Shakespeare for children of all ages, even primary school children (HERE). I grew up in a home where books weren’t read to or with me, so reading...
View ArticleIs This the “Missing Link” of Shakespeare Studies?
Critics usually pose the greatest literary mystery of them all—the authorship question surrounding the works of William Shakespeare—as a “whodunit,” but it’s more of a “howdunit.” How could the...
View ArticleRomeo and Juliet – classic, romantic, tragic Shakespeare at The Mount July...
“We are grateful to The Mount for their efforts in making our second-consecutive collaboration with them so seamless and enjoyable,” says Artistic Director Tony Simotes. “I am also very proud of Jon’s...
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Folger Teaching Shakespeare Institute 2014, Part One
My role at the institute is to teach and coach the participants in creating projects integrating technology. Here is the list of tools we talked about: Some of the other instructors discussed other...
View ArticleShakespeare, Sadness-Shaman: Hamlet as an Ally in Our Grief and Despair
O’Rourke writes: I returned over and over to key speeches as if they were prayers or clues. I’d always thought of Hamlet’s melancholy as existential. His sense that the world “is out of joint” came...
View ArticlePart Two: No. 99 of 100 Reasons to Believe Oxford was “Shakespeare” — The...
Moreover, Kate’s father is quite willing to use her for his own personal gain – shades of Polonius, father of Hamlet’s fiancé Ophelia; and, too, shades of Lord Burghley, the manipulative father of...
View ArticleBrook Cottage Books: Welcome to London, William Shakespeare by D Lawrence-Young
Will Shakespeare is a young lad, happy to work at school, but happier really when he is writing long love poems and short plays. Unfortunately, his father, having fallen on hard times has to send Will...
View ArticleLearning to read what the iPad store has writ: Shakespeare goes mobile : Arts 2
As our country’s greatest ever playwright, it’s inevitable that Shakespeare looms large on the list of theatrically-inclined apps for the mobile market. Being out of copyright doesn’t exactly hurt....
View ArticleConspicuous Anonymity: Shakespeare for Haters or Learning to Bear the Bard.
The assembly remains etched upon my memories of childhood and to this day, I still haven’t seen ‘The Merchant of Venice’ although I will. The word ‘flesh’ makes me creep though, in this case owing to...
View ArticleShakespeare Fest’s ‘Twelfth Night’ showcases the emerging talents of student...
The six students in this year’s program were Carl Ackers, Fisher Alexander, Joe Angelette, Andrea Gros, Carli Kirtland and Emma Lopez. Each gave assured and brightly done performances, putting across...
View ArticleFolgerpedia: a new resource for Shakespeare | The Shakespeare blog
Washington D C’s Folger Shakespeare Library has just announced an exciting new initiative. “Folgerpedia is the Folger Shakespeare Library’s collaboratively-edited encyclopedia of all things “Folger.”...
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Shakespeare and Emotion — European style | Digital Shakespeares
A quick plug for a seminar on Shakespeare and emotion that I’m co-organizing with the excellent Kristine Steenbergh next year. It’s part of the European Shakespeare Research Association’s conference at...
View ArticleAdvice for Shakespeare teachers: What to do on the first day of school |...
Have students interview another student they don’t know. They can interview about their summer vacation or something interesting about the student. Then have the students translate parts of the...
View ArticleNo. 100 of 100 Reasons for the Earl of Oxford’s Authorship of the Shakespeare...
When the British schoolmaster came upon a summary of Edward de Vere’s life by Shakespeare editor and biographer Sir Sidney Lee, in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) for 1885-1900, he was...
View ArticleStratford, the Shakespeare Revival and World War 1 | The Shakespeare blog
I have on my shelves a book entitled The Shakespeare Revival: the Stratford-upon-Avon Movement, probably acquired by my father in a second-hand shop years ago. It’s always puzzled me. The book was...
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Dr Robert Muller – Energise Your Life Now!: Shakespeare Plays Key Role in...
Sir John Gilbert’s 1849 painting: The Plays of William Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of William Shakespeare’s plays. Since the artist died in 1897, this work is now in the...
View ArticleLearning languages and Love’s Labour’s Lost – Finding Shakespeare
Florio also compiled the largest Italian-English dictionary of the time in 1598. Called the Worlde of Words, it contained a massive 44 000 entries. We also have a copy of this book in our...
View ArticleOdin Teatret (the book), Stanislavski (the film), Shakespeare (the app) and...
There are plenty of learning resources for theatrical professions – books, apps, websites, videos and study aids – but the choice can be overwhelming. Each week, Susan Elkin skims the cream of these...
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