Up this week: Cliff Notes Shakespeare shorts, Shakespeare the Swedenborgian, and Shakespearean light bulb jokes. Next week: suggestions for Valentine’s gifts for the Shakespeare lover in your life.

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Hello all, Steven here and welcome to another edition of O What Learning Is. This is your weekly place for all things Education and Shakespeare. What have we got this week for you? Well let’s see: Teachers learning how to teach Shakespeare, A lecture on Shakespeare and Verdi in Chicago, and much more.

Teachers getting taught [...]

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Greetings! This is Emily with the weekly edition of the Scrivener. I hope winter’s icy fingers are not proving too cruel this January, but if they are perhaps this Shakespeare news can warm you up!

The Tempest in Tucson

As a result of a state-mandated end to ethnic studies programs, the Tucson Unified School District [...]

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It’s Monday! Hello! December is a’wasting, but fear not; we will still be bringing you Shakespeare news and reviews for some time before the Christmas holidays.

Dick Shakespeare’s Big Break
One Bob Rogers has written a screenplay about the Shakespeare family, set at Christmas in the year 1600, and seen from the p.o.v. of [...]

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Welcome back from the Thanksgiving holidays! If you hate Mondays in general, I can only imagine how much you must hate this particular Monday, what with the excesses of Black Friday and all. Well, to help you get your head screwed back on and reignite your love for all things Shakespearean, why not focus on [...]

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First I must pass my congratulations to the SAU cast and crew of The Crucible, having completed their run Sunday Night.

Next, all this witchery puts me in mind… of Shakespeare.

My review of Branagh’s Hamlet

Two and a Half of Five stars.

One of the most titanic undertakings in film adaptation is the [...]

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