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The Bard behind bars: how students are taking Shakespeare to court

The Bard behind bars: how students are taking Shakespeare to court

Helen Amass for TES Digital, 20 March 2016 Staging a mock trial could help young people relate to the playwright’s work, says the head of learning for Shakespeare’s Globe At the Royal Courts of Justice, a teenager stands accused under the Malicious Communications Act. The barristers whisper as they wait for the jury to return with a verdict. Despite looking […]

March 20, 2016 · 0 comments · Global, Teachers
Watch Professor Green and Meera Syal surprise schoolkids with a Shakespeare lesson

Watch Professor Green and Meera Syal surprise schoolkids with a Shakespeare lesson

The Irish Examiner, 22 September 2015 Shakespeare lessons can often be some of the more testing and difficult hours of your school days. In light of that, Professor Green decided to undertake a task befitting of his scholarly title by surprising a secondary school class with actress Meera Syal. But it wasn’t a musical performance the British rapper and Goodness Gracious […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers
Shakespeare — Shaken and Stirred in Jamaica

Shakespeare — Shaken and Stirred in Jamaica

South Florida Caribbean News, 14 September 2015 All the world is indeed Shakespeare’s stage. From London, to New York, to Cape Town, sultry summer afternoons find entranced audiences in parks, along lake fronts and in theatres, feasting on performances from some of this century’s most proclaimed actors. In New York, “Shakespeare in the Park” has been a staple in the summer theatre diet […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers
Teaching a Different Shakespeare From the One I Love

Teaching a Different Shakespeare From the One I Love

By Stephen Greenblatt for The New York Times Magazine, 11 September 2015 My first encounter with Shakespeare — ‘‘As You Like It,’’ in Miss Gillespie’s eighth-grade English class — left me cold. I still remember the words ‘‘I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry,’’ which I must have been compelled to recite out loud, with a shudder. But not […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers
Can Shakespeare Heal? One Director’s Quest to Help Treat PTSD

Can Shakespeare Heal? One Director’s Quest to Help Treat PTSD

By Madaline Donnelly for The Daily Signal, 7 September 2015 Before he met Jaclyn McLoughlin, combat veteran Androcles Scicluna passed most days focused on survival, picking abandoned bottles and milk cartons out of trash cans and curling up in whatever public dry spot he could find to sleep at night. “I had to leave [the armed forces] for medical reasons, and after […]

September 10, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers