Shakespeare Plays the Classroom

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SHAKESPEARE PLAYS THE CLASSROOM

Bringing Shakespeare to the Sunshine State, this book gathers together a talented group of teachers, choreographers, directors, set designers, musicians, costumers, actors, and artists to discuss how they have adapted the bard’s monologues in Miami, assassinated Julius Caesar on the steps of Tallahassee’s Capitol, trained students to duel in Florida’s Panhandle, placed Shylock on trial in Orlando, and transformed Gainesville into Puck’s magical forest.

This guide for teachers and lovers of literature and theater is an original collection of essays exploring the idea that Shakespeare’s plays are best approached playfully through performance. Based on their wide-ranging experience as theater professionals and teachers in Florida, New York, London, and Stratford, the authors celebrate Shakespeare’s continuing appeal to our complex, diverse culture.

The essays include reflections on acting by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s longest-serving member. And there’s practical advice on acting; directing; staging fights; designing costumes; and integrating music, dance, masks, and puppets into performances from teachers and others who have refined their methods by performing Shakespeare in the classroom.

“Shakespeare Plays the Classroom is a gift, rich in pleasures and incredibly multifaceted.” —John Andrews, president of the Shakespeare Guild, former editor of The Shakespeare Quarterly

“I wonder how many teachers there are who would like to gather some of their students … and allow them to ‘speak what they feel’ and love them into being more than they ever dreamed possible.” —from the Prologue “At Play in the Neighborhood” by Fred Rogers

Paperback $24.95
ISBN: 1-56164-277-0
Size: 6 x 9
250 Pages

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