Shakespeare
Volume 2, Issue 3
FALL 1998

TEACHING
JULIUS CAESAR:
Are We to Praise Caesar or Bury Him?

The Sculpture Garden
Katherine Utley uses human sculptures to highlight key scenes from Caesar.

Et Tu, Plutarch
Joe Bonfiglio primes his students with Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.

A Triumvirate of Julius Caesar Productions
Shakespeare looks at three influential Caesars.

"And Here Remain with Your Uncertainty": Teaching Shakespeare's Politics without Julius Caesar
Joshua Cabat finds political themes in Coriolanus and Troilus and Cressida.

Seeing the Light Through Antony and Cleopatra
Brian J. Kelley directs a student production.

TEACHING SHAKESPEARE

Modern Art Gives Clues to Early Modern Characters
Chris Ferguson uses Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism to help students understand Shakespeare's characters.

Kris Wermy plays Julius Caesar in the Sculpture Garden activity.

FEATURED ARTICLE

What Portia Knew
Naomi Liebler uses Plutarch's histories to investigate Portia and Calphurnia.

"In Portia's case, we may ask why [Shakespeare] has passed along this representation of a woman who not only endures physical pain but self-inflicts it.   In fact, she may be the only female character in Shakespeare who tolerates, even invites, physical pain while refusing to put up with emotional rejection, as she does throughout her persuasive argument with Brutus.  The key to her endurance is her Stoic upbringing; as she says, she has 'a man's mind, but a woman's might' (2.4.8)."

FEATURED WEB ARTICLES/LESSON IDEAS

Acting Out the Cinna Scene
Michael LoMonico shares a lesson he uses to get his class to look at text interpretation and movement. 

Playing with Subtext:  Using Groucho to Teach Shakespeare
John S. O'Connor helps students understand the importance of subtext. 

"All are punished":
Studying Varying Loyalties in Julius Caesar
Carolyn P. Henly helps students chart the progress of the shifting motivations in Julius Caesar. 

BROADSHEET
Upstairs, Downstairs with Shakespeare's Irony
A look at the language of Antony's funeral oration.

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