As I mentioned in my post, “Oh, to Be in England” on May 3, Shakespeare’s Globe is presenting a marathon of 37 plays with acting companies from around the world. But if you can’t get to the Globe to Globe Festival, there is now an alternative. A UK site called The Space is running full-length videos of them [...]
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The Globe to Globe Festival on Your Computer
Posted in Midsummer, Richard III, Uncategorized, videos, tagged Globe, London, Measure for Measure, Midsummer, movies, Richard III, Shakespeare, theater, Twelfth Night, video on 05/22/2012 | 3 Comments »
“Faith, here’s an Equivocator,”
Posted in Activity Idea, Folger Education, Folger Library, Henry VIII, History, Richard III, Shakespeare on 11/18/2011 | 4 Comments »
Very often, it is not necessary to teach the history behind Shakespeare’s plays to enjoy them in the classroom. It is merely enough to speak the words, explore the text, and get to know the characters. If possible, however, the influence of monarchs on Shakespeare’s plays can be just as interesting. How is Macbeth a dramatization of the [...]
Owning and Personalizing Shakespeare
Posted in Acting, Hamlet, Performance, Richard III, Shakespeare on Film, videos, YouTube on 08/18/2011 | Leave a Comment »
This video was making the rounds a couple of weeks ago, and I finally had a chance to see it. Impressionist/Comedian Jim Meskin performs Clarence’s speech from Richard III (I.iv) as well-known celebrities and characters: What I especially appreciate about his performance is that Meskin chose which voices to use based on the content of the line [...]
Shakespeare and comics?
Posted in Hamlet, introducing Shakespeare, Macbeth, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Lit, Teaching on 02/10/2011 | 3 Comments »
~by Conor McCreery I’m pretty sure I know what you’re thinking; you’re thinking: FINALLY! Finally someone has put together a medium and a creative genius that work together even better than chocolate and peanut butter. No, I’m not kidding. Shakespeare was always meant to be seen. His plays have a special mix of magic and [...]
More Than Papier-Mâché Characters
Posted in Folger Library, Hamlet, introducing Shakespeare, Macbeth, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Lit on 02/08/2011 | 2 Comments »
~by Anthony Del Col The best Shakespeare production I’ve ever seen was also the worst. A friend of mine was doing a community theatre production of Titus Andronicus years ago and it was quite bad (with the exception of my friend, who may be reading this… oops!). Bad acting, directing, sets, costumes and props (a [...]
Ghostly Shakespeare
Posted in Hamlet, Richard III on 10/28/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shakespeare wrote some pretty scary stuff. Besides the chilling Witches in Macbeth, he wrote in several roles for ghosts. We’re familiar with the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, which appears and re-appears to spur Hamlet onto revenge (and may have been played by Shakespeare himself when the play was produced by his company). There is also [...]
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