Shakespeare
Volume 6, Issue 2
SPRING 2002

Inventive
Teachers
and Invested
Students

"Not a mouse stirring" at Orlando-UCF Festival
Lyn Frick talks to Jim Helsinger about the new Florida Shakespeare Center.

"The best actors in the world"
G. G. Garth spends the weekend in New York at The English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition.

Teaching love and understanding through Shakespeare
Melissa Borgmann and Lisa McDonagh show how their collaborative unit brought students from Minnesota and Massachusetts together.

Politically correct sonnets
Deanna Hebbert has her students bowdlerize the sonnets.

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

BROADSHEET:  
"Hang there, my verse"
Keli Brownell contributes an anthology of poems from her Southern California students.

Daniel Heath from San Diego, CA performs at the
English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition.

IN THE CLASSROOM
"She was alive all the time"
Carolyn Henly makes a case for teaching The Winter's Tale in high school.

"The play works well for high school students for a number of reasons.  The basic issues Shakespeare explores in the play are the issues that American teenagers feeling their way toward independence and adulthood concern themselves with, whether they study literature or not:  jealousy, unjust suspicion, loyalty and betrayal, sin and forgiveness, the ability to know what is real and what is right, and the place of women in ordering the universe.  Because of this, The Winter's Tale works well in conjunction with other commonly taught texts, both by Shakespeare and by other authors.  It can be related to Othello (for a contrasting portrait of misdirected jealousy), Julius Caesar (with its central questions about loyalty, friendship, and the good of the state), Arthur Miller's The Crucible (for an exploration of the ramifications of adultery, repentance, and forgiveness), Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (for a study of how family, social position, and personal relationships either feed or overcome prejudices), and so on."

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