Recently the internet was abuzz with excitement over a secretly produced film of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Joss Whedon. Mostly, probably, because it’s one of the most well-loved nerds ever directing a cast of a few more of the most well-loved nerds. I excitedly shared this information with my High School Fellowship mentees the [...]
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Not Much Ado about Much Ado…
Posted in Folger Education, Humanities Education, introducing Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Lit, Shakespeare on Film, Teaching on 11/15/2011 | 4 Comments »
NaNoWriMo – Exploring Possibilities
Posted in Activity Idea, Humanities Education, Midsummer, Shakespeare Lit on 11/03/2011 | 5 Comments »
November has been “National Novel Writing Month,” since 1999, and it’s still gaining ground. The concept is that every day in November is spent working on a rough draft of a full-length novel – producing about 1699 words per day. It’s intense, but the site above offers pep talks, word count badges, and other incentives [...]
Shakespeare WAS an Adapter
Posted in Folger Education, introducing Shakespeare, Shakespeare Lit, Teaching, YouTube on 10/06/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Shakespeare is one of the most recognized figures in literature, and his works have been adapted and adapted and adapted over and over and over again for the last 400 years by people interested in exploring the stories and characters in new ways. And that is exactly what Shakespeare did, as well. However, Shakespeare didn’t [...]
Bless thee! Thou art Translated!
Posted in Elementary Ed, ELL, Folger Education, introducing Shakespeare, Shakespeare Lit, Teaching on 10/04/2011 | 9 Comments »
They’re everywhere: No Fear Shakespeare, Simply Shakespeare, Translated Shakespeare. There are teachers who truly believe that their students can’t understand Shakespeare’s 400 year-old words, and turn to updated adaptations which give students the gist of the story, but none of the original poetry. I used to be ok with it. I thought that as long [...]
How Blogs Chang Everything
Posted in History, introducing Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Lit on 07/26/2011 | 2 Comments »
~by Carol Kelly What makes a good blog entry? An interesting subject? Controversial subject matter? A radical viewpoint? Or is it just witnessing the powerful influence a blog can exert? In preparing a blog entry in response to How Shakespeare Changed Everything, by Stephen Marche I found a series of fascinating blog entries in response [...]
Extra – Credit: Reading Shakespeare
Posted in Humanities Education, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Lit on 07/05/2011 | 1 Comment »
We’re well into the summer now (happy Fourth of July!), and it seems that lounging outside on a beautiful day with a good book is the best way to spend the time. I agree. If you happen to be reading this, though please share if you’re summer reading list includes any books or novels which [...]
Shakespeare has poked Benedick
Posted in Acting, Folger Education, introducing Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Lit, Technology in the Classroom on 04/26/2011 | 1 Comment »
The big news in Shakespeare geek circles this week is the “production” of Much Ado About Nothing taking place on FACEBOOK beginning tomorrow. Sixteen characters have been added to facebook, and if you “like” all of them you can watch their story unfold in real time on the internet. Benedick Salvador will flame Beatrice Grant’s wall, [...]
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 [...]
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