Shakespeare
Volume 4, Issue 3
FALL 2000
NEWS ON THE RIALTO
A compendium of courses, conferences, and theatre performances around the world.
PRINCE HAL RULES
From Prodigal Prince
to Accomplished King
A teaching unit that traces Hal through three plays.
A Film Guide to
Kenneth Branagh's
Henry V
A useful guide for students with limited experience of Shakespeare as they
set out to see the film for the first time.
The Insult Game
Ruby Ann Hutnak's exercise to hurl the insults
of Hal and Falstaff.
Explicating and
Performing Hal's
Speeches
Andrea Alsup leads students to analyze then
perform speeches from 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V.
A Little Touch of Harry
Four actors playing Prince Hal give their opinions of his character.
Michael Huftile as Prince Hal in Henry
V
FEATURED ARTICLES
Hamlet at the Globe
Mary Lindroth interviews Giles
Block, the director of this season's Hamlet at Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre in London.
There is a delight when you work here of realizing you have got the theatre for which the play was written, or as close as we can get. So for once you have got absolutely the right stage on which to play those lines (the stage direction reads "Ghost cries under the stage" [1.5.168]). And there is something else that does happen. You are freer here. In a more conventional theatre you might well have started that scene on the battlements. At the Globe the audience's imagination is probably allowed to wander because there is less need to be specific about where we are because it is all in the language. . . . It is this stage that gives you that freedom.
MY FAVORITE PRODUCTION
Stephen Booth talks about the merits of
productions and puddles.
BROADSHEET
A script for students to act out the genealogy chart for Edward III and
his seven sons.
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