Shakespeare Magazine ~ Spring 2000

Shakespeare
Volume 4, Issue 2
SPRING 2000

NEWS ON THE RIALTO
A compendium of courses, conferences, and theatre performances around the world.

TEACHING SHAKESPEARE

Where There's A Will,
There's a Way
Christina B. Carpenter uses rapster Will Smith to familiarize students with the figurative language of Shakespeare.

Students Publish Shakespeare Periodicals
Through journalism Siobhan Berry and Mary Pitman-Jones lead students to a close study of Shakespeare passages.

Strip Sonnets
Monica Wiener starts with single lines and produces full-blown sonnet analysis.

INTERVIEW

Why Active Teaching Works: The Nature of Words and Students
Shakespeare editor Nancy Goodwin interviews Rex Gibson.

MY FAVORITE PRODUCTION
Shakespeare scholars name their favorite Shakespeare production and describe its splendors.

Shakespeare Magazine ~ Volume 4, Issue 2
Julia Stiles as Ophelia in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet

FEATURED ARTICLES

Gertrude and Claudius
Louisa Newlin reviews the new Updike prequel to Hamlet.

Almereyda's New Urban Shakespeare:
Hamlet as Manhattan Filmmaker
Preview of the just-released movie.

The Ghost of Hamlet's father disappears into a Pepsi machine; Hamlet delivers his famous soliloquy in the aisles of Blockbuster Video; Claudius is the CEO of Denmark Corporation, a high-tech, multinational conglomerate; Hamlet aspires to be a digital video filmmaker. But these images and references, which abound in the new Miramax release, are not without a purpose. "Global corporate power seems at least as treacherous as anything going on in a well-oiled feudal empire of Shakespeare's day," director Michael Almereyda explains. "But I intended the corporate media angle to go deeper than just that easy correspondence. It relates to the whole look and scope of the film."

BROADSHEET
Take time to look at rhyme.

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