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A Silenced Shakespeare in Washington, D.C.

A Silenced Shakespeare in Washington, D.C.

By James Bovard for The Wall Street Journal, 13 July 2015 In Act 5 of “Love’s Labor Lost,” one character scoffs at pedants: “They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” The latest Shakespeare fashion, at least in the Washington area, is to invite people to a feast of language and serve nothing but grunts, grimaces and grins—with a […]

August 3, 2015 · 0 comments · Theaters
It’s Shakespeare Week: are children well-school’d in the Bard?

It’s Shakespeare Week: are children well-school’d in the Bard?

By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian‘s Theatre blog, 17 March 2015 How should we introduce children to Shakespeare? I ask because it’s Shakespeare Week in primary schools, a nationwide initiative that aims to introduce the under-11s to the plays of the man who is inevitably dubbed in the online trailers as “the world’s greatest writer”. That always makes me think of Robert Graves’ pithy […]

March 26, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers