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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
Tina Packer on Shakespeare’s five ages of women

Tina Packer on Shakespeare’s five ages of women

By Amanda Katz for The Boston Globe, 18 April 2015 One morning this month, Tina Packer was rushing across Harvard’s campus to professor Marjorie Garber’s 11 a.m. class on Shakespeare’s early plays when she learned a secret: The class, which she was guest-teaching, typically didn’t really get going till 11:07. She stopped short on the sidewalk. “Tricked! Tricked! Tricked!” she […]

April 30, 2015 · 0 comments · Actors, Uncategorized