Year-end Giving to Shakespeare

December 31, 2009

This summer of 40 plays in 40 days reminded me again of the wonderful people out there in the States who produce quality Shakespearean performances in a wide-variety of venues. Many of the performances had some type of announcement (or plea) regarding donations and how difficult it was to keep providing these quality performances in […]

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A trip to Madison to see RSC

December 14, 2009

What high school English teacher wouldn’t show the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) Complete Works of Shakespeare–Abridged? And so I have (usually after hanging out with Hamlet for a couple of weeks) for my AP English Literature  and AP English Language classes. It is simply classic deconstruction of the Bard’s works and in the end, we […]

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Now what?

December 5, 2009

The summer experience of seeing all of Shakespeare’s plays is long over (since the end of August), now what? Not a bad question. I’m currently finishing the write-ups for the rest of the summer plays. I haven’t been posting those “stories” of the plays on the site here as my priority is to get them […]

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