This week in Shakespeare education features artwork exhibits, Shakespeare Festivals, and teachers on Shakespeare enthusiasm in the classroom.
Read further anon →This week in education, The Independent revisits the Joseph Reynolds campaign against The Simpsons, The Royal College of Art displays Shakespeare-inspired prints, and The Stratford Shakespeare Festival promotes various competition challenges for students.
Read further anon →While preparing for the Blackfriars Conference, I’ve taken some time to mull our author’s impact.
It is fair to say few authors are as successful as William Shakespeare. We easily recall his thirty plus plays, his hundred plus sonnets, epic poems and more. We strive to justify his impact, but I would like to try [...]
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Top o’ the Monday morning to you. This week’s Shakespearean multimedia news begins with a grave consideration of the question on everyone’s mind: Did Shakespeare write his own plays, or are they in fact the product of an alien culture from beyond the stars? The scholarly community is divided. On one [...]
Read further anon →This week in education, Arizona schools go digital with “As You Like It,” New Zealand drops Shakespeare from their assessment essays, and the World Shakespeare Festival launches in anticipation of 2012.
Read further anon →Fresno artist Nanete Maki-Dearsan wants to reshape how modern viewers understand Ophelia; through her art, she endeavors to deconstruct Millais’s romantic depiction of a young lady driven to quiet, dignified suicidal despair. “If a girl wants to be special and unique, she needs to survive and be strong,” she says. “To be weak and give up, you’re just another Ophelia.”
From what I’ve read, Maki-Dearsan’s 36-foot re-envisioning of her subject is a sight to behold.
Read further anon →The following is a news release from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust regarding a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum between February 4 and May 1, 2011:
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the charity which promotes and cares for Shakespeare’s heritage, has acquired the lost copy of the [...]
Read further anon →My name is Gina Miller and I have made a animation entitled “The Ophelia Diaries”. I have always been moved by the tragic figure that is Shakespeare’s Ophelia. I wrote a poem about Ophelia that she narrates from her point of [...]
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