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