A Horse With Wings is a new children’s book that introduces children to Shakespeare by having characters from his plays sing songs. The journey from the idea to create the book and its completion is an interesting one. A few years ago, Daeshin Kim and his wife, Sohyun An, moved their family from Los Angeles… Continue Reading »
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We’ve been thinking a lot about the benefit of having students listen to Shakespeare’s language. With the recent release of the digital edition of Othello, we are in the process of producing an audio recording of the play that follows the Folger edition. The goal is to enable students to read and hear the text… Continue Reading »
In a recent article in The Guardian (1/1/13), Brian Cox talks about his first performance for the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing the lead character in Titus Andronicus which, if you’ve read some of my other blog entries, you’ll remember is my favorite Shakespeare play. Cox notes that the role of Titus was “… the most… Continue Reading »
Twelve of Shakespeare’s plays, including Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night were made available in digital format earlier this month by the Folger Shakespeare Library. The response has been tremendously… Continue Reading »
It’s true that you never know the way(s) in which you’ll be affected by the works of William Shakespeare. Last summer, the Folger Shakespeare Library hosted twenty-five teachers from around the country who participated in Folger Education’s Teaching Shakespeare Institute. This four-week program where teachers explore four plays from the viewpoints of scholarship, pedagogy, and… Continue Reading »
Folger Theater will soon start rehearsals for Henry V. The Folger Education team meets ahead of the rehearsal kick-off to brainstorm ideas for the study guide. We create a study guide for each of the Shakespeare plays that gets produced at the Folger and archive them on our study guide web page for teachers to… Continue Reading »
With just a few weeks before Thanksgiving, I thought that I’d do a quick internet search to see what I could find when I entered “Shakespeare and Thanksgiving” into the search box. Wow! An incredible number of resources popped up on my screen. The American Shakespeare Center has a page of responses sent in by… Continue Reading »
Folger Education was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s World Shakespeare Festival Conference last September, presenting a workshop, participating in a symposium on using technology in teaching Shakespeare, and represented on a panel discussing Shakespeare. It was an energizing and inspiring conference. While we were in London, my colleague and I had the opportunity to see Timon of Athens at the National… Continue Reading »
One of the plays our High School Fellowship group at the Folger Shakespeare Library is studying this semester is Richard III. Long considered one of the most evil of English kings, Richard III may be able to defend himself and change the way we look at him more that 500 years after his death. A… Continue Reading »
I have been thinking about Las Vegas. This year’s National Council of Teachers of English convention will take place there in November. However, what prompted thoughts of Vegas wasn’t the convention or the slots, but a recent article on broadway world.com about that noted the Las Vegas Shakespeare Company’s announcement that it would be undertaking a capital campaign… Continue Reading »
