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SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ST. LOUIS EDUCATIONAL TOUR TAKES THE BARD TO SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS

Mary McHugh, St.Louis Post-Dispatch May 8, 2014   Shakespeare Festival St. Louis’ educational touring productions visited more than 90 schools and community venues, presenting some 120 activities to 18,000 students, including, for the second year in a row, schools in rural Missouri, thanks to support from the Monsanto Fund. The adapted 50-minute productions, filled with the Bard’s advice on everything from […]

May 9, 2014 · 0 comments · Teachers
Shakespeare with Chinese Characteristics?

Shakespeare with Chinese Characteristics?

Julie Sanders, Fifteen Eighty Four April 30, 2014   At the 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival in March 2014, Beijing director Tian Qinxin presented her National Theatre of China production of Romeo and Juliet in Putonghua with Chinese and English surtitles. Starring television idols Li Guangjie and Yin Tao and with the action located in a fictional mainland town called Verona, CCTV (the Chinese national […]

May 2, 2014 · 0 comments · Global, Teachers
Shakespeare in Shackles: Laura Bates Teaches in Maximum Security Prisons

Shakespeare in Shackles: Laura Bates Teaches in Maximum Security Prisons

Jeremy Berlin, National Geographic April 28, 2014   On a windy April day in central Indiana, six men enter a room. Three are white, three are black. Two are over 50, the rest under 40. All of them wear khaki jumpsuits and carry books under their tattooed arms. They are six of the 1,840 inmates at the Pendleton Correctional Facility, a […]

April 29, 2014 · 0 comments · Teachers
New Shakespeare Central Interview Series: Inaugural “E-Mail” Interview — Grand Rapids, MI Poet Laureate David Cope

New Shakespeare Central Interview Series: Inaugural “E-Mail” Interview — Grand Rapids, MI Poet Laureate David Cope

Shakespeare Central Times Interview: David Cope is a long time teacher of poetry, Shakespeare and literature.  He is also the Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Steve Rowland interviews David Cope via E-mail. Dave, very nice to ‘meet’ you and to be connected with you.  Thank you for agreeing to be the very first in a series of interviews with writers, […]

April 26, 2014 · 0 comments · Interviews, Shakespeare Central Own Content, Teachers
Hear Allen Ginsberg’s Short Free Course on Shakespeare’s Play, The Tempest (1980)

Hear Allen Ginsberg’s Short Free Course on Shakespeare’s Play, The Tempest (1980)

Josh Jones, Open Culture March 28, 2014   Like so many great poets, Allen Ginsberg composed extemporaneously as he spoke, in erudite paragraphs, reciting lines and whole poems from memory—in his case, usually the poems of William Blake. In a 1966 Paris Review interview, for example, he discusses and quotes Blake at length, concluding “The thing I understood from Blake was that it was possible to […]

April 2, 2014 · 0 comments · Teachers
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