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Shakespeare’s Secret Legacy

Shakespeare’s Secret Legacy

Paul Hunting : Author, authentic leadership coach, horse-assisted coaching trainer, horse whisperer For thousands upon thousands of years great sages, masters, seers, prophets and teachers have been attempting to convey to us the ultimate truth about who we really are, where we come from and why we’re here on this planet. Yet, to most people, it still remains a mystery. More than […]

September 7, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture, Teachers
RSC and Samsung Bring Shakespeare to Smartphones

RSC and Samsung Bring Shakespeare to Smartphones

Staff writers at The Telegraph, 13 July 2015 The works of William Shakespeare have been described as unaccessible, but now the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) aims to change that. The theatre company has teamed up with Samsung to launch a new app to bring Shakespeare to life for teenagers. The free Android app, called RE:Shakespeare, which is aimed at 11 to […]

August 3, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers
To Teach or Not to Teach: Controversy Over Shakespeare in Schools

To Teach or Not to Teach: Controversy Over Shakespeare in Schools

Teacher: Why I don’t want to assign Shakespeare anymore (even though he’s in the Common Core) Valerie Strauss hosts  Dana Dusbiber on the Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, 13 June 2015 I am a high school English teacher. I am not supposed to dislike Shakespeare. But I do. And not only do I dislike Shakespeare because of my own personal disinterest in […]

June 23, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers
Shakespeare revolutionised at Tasmanian College of the Arts

Shakespeare revolutionised at Tasmanian College of the Arts

University of Tasmania article, 28 April 2015 Taking crucial scenes from five of Shakespeare’s most brutal plays and sewing them into one cohesive storyline, CROWNS focuses on the tragedy that is the human condition and its lust for power. Greed and ambition are the major themes of this piece, set in an abstracted industrial zone, with all the characters weaving a complex tale […]

April 30, 2015 · 0 comments · Global, Teachers

Shakespeare Presented at Maximum Security Prison

Huntington University press release On Thursday, April 23, Dr. Jack Heller, assistant professor of English at Huntington University, is going to prison. Heller will co-direct a group of 18 inmates at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in the Shakespeare play, Coriolanus, with Dr. Stacy Erickson, associate professor of English at Manchester University. Since September, Heller has made weekly trips to the maximum security men’s […]

April 30, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers