Shakespeare Magazine ~ Summer 1999

Shakespeare
Volume 1, Issue 2
WINTER 1997

Romeo & Juliet

After Luhrmann, will Romeo and Juliet ever be the same?
Students, teachers and scholars react to the film that puts a cool romance against a background of hot cars, guns, power, and money.

A Plague on Both Your Fathers: Patriarchy in Verona Beach.
Miami University of Ohio scholar Frances Dolan links the foreboding fathers of Romeo+Juliet with their Elizabethan counterparts.

From Broadway to Turkey, Romeo courts Juliet.
Rare photos of the Balcony Scene from the archives of Lincoln Center's Library for the Performing Arts.

Fancy and Neutral Masks.
Sue Biondo-Hench shows us how to make and use fancy masks; Caleen Jennings shows us how working with white-faced masks leads to breakthroughs in character study.

Thees and Thous: Clues to Interpersonal Relationships.
Pat Thisted shows how spending a day learning the ins and outs of second person familiar pronoun forms can lead to insights about relationships between Shakespeare's characters.

Volume 1, Issue 2, Winter 1997

Trial by Audience.
Kimberly Strain recounts a trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland with middle school students.

Electronic Shakespeare.
University of Northern Iowa instructor Rick Vanderwall reviews two new Romeo and Juliet CD-ROMs: BBC Shakespeare on CD-ROM and Romeo and Juliet: Center Stage. Producer Madeline Holzer and teacher Robert Price give hands-on accounts of using CD-ROMs in the classroom. Did you think that computer technology produced passive, sit-in-front-of-the-screen-and-absorb learning experiences? Vanderwall, Holzer, and Price challenge this assumption. Whether equipped with one computer or a full computer lab, teachers can use the information in these articles to use CD-ROMs as a springboard to performance.

Peggy O'Brien's 20-minute R&J.
We twisted Peggy O'Brien's arm to give us the script for one of the most popular Shakespeare activities she has ever designed. It's fun. It's fast. And it's supercharged with information that plants itself deep in the brain.

Dream Shakespeare Films.
John Goodman as King Lear? Woody Allen directing As You Like It? Teachers, scholars, enthusiasts describe the Shakespeare film they most want to see in the future.

Rex Gibson on Juliet's funeral.
The renowned editor of the Cambridge School Shakespeare editions gives us an authentic David Garrick poster and ideas for how to use it in the classroom.

Michael Pennington Passionate but Practical.
Hilary Zunin reviews Michael Pennington's Hamlet: A User's Guide.

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