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Professor Richard Knowles, University of Wisconsin- Teaching Shakespeare

Richard Knowles is a widely honored teacher in the UW-Madison Dept. of English, where he is especially noted for

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English Teacher Line Marshall, Columbia High School, Maplewood, NJ- Iambic Pentameter

Line Marshall: Well the class activity I think a natural fit would be perhaps the day after you’ve introduced students to the idea of iambic pentameter because of course there are certain technical aspects that you need to know the whole thing about tensile bows per line, one stressed and unstressed syllables alternating and the whole idea of iambic pentameter and blind force. So they would have initial notes but

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Professor James Shapiro, Columbia University – Elizabethan Life in Stratford

James Shapiro: No one listening to this would want to exchange their lives with the lives of people living in Stratford in 1564 or

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Director of Education Robert Young, The Folger Shakespeare Library- Teaching Shakespeare

Robert Young: We ask teachers from around the country who have participated in our workshops to send us some of their favorite

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