The Winter’s Tale vs. Cymbeline
Now, the gloves come off. I’ve blogged about gay muppets, the Iraq War, and the sexual proclivities of a certain 13th century Mongolian conqueror who shall remain nameless, but now I’m ready to tackle...
View ArticlePhoning It In
The Bard-a-thon rages on. Last night, I joined them by phone for their readings of As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Right now, we’re doing Richard III. I’m having a grand time. The...
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To Have My Cake and Eat It Too
Yesterday, I hosted a reading of King Lear. It happened to be my birthday, so I wanted to get a cake. But since it was a King Lear reading and not a birthday party, I wanted to get a cake that would be...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week
We did a reading of As You Like It yesterday, and the question of the best marriage in Shakespeare came up again. Here’s what I had to say last year in response to Cesario, a fellow blogger who...
View ArticleAll’s Well that Ends Well
Well, I finally got the reading group started up again. A member generously offered to host in January, I got the invites out, and we’ve already got enough RSVPs to hold the reading (any less than...
View ArticleGoogleplex – 12/12/08
It’s time once again to check in on what searches people have done to find themselves at Shakespeare Teacher, and to respond in the name of fun and public service. All of the following searches brought...
View ArticleWord of the Week: Community
The word of the week is community. It’s a word I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, as I’ve been doing a lot of leaning on my own community over the past few weeks. I’ve also been thinking about how...
View ArticleBest of the Bard
I was telling someone of my list of favorite scenes this evening, and it made me think of a reading that I was planning to have several years ago. Instead of choosing one play, I would edit together a...
View ArticleThe Eighth
The invitation rhyme I posted a couple of days ago got a good reaction, so I’d like to share with you another invitation rhyme. I wrote this one as an invitation to a reading of Henry VIII. Enjoy! The...
View ArticleConundrum: Shakespeare Invites
Thanks for the good feedback about last week’s invite rhymes for the Best of the Bard and Henry VIII invites. The Shakespeare invites don’t usually involve poetry, but I do like to include a tagline to...
View ArticleUnder the Influence
I’ve been asked by the good folks at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to participate in a project with other bloggers in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday. The idea is to describe in a blog post how...
View ArticleShakespeare High
New research from Liverpool University shows that Shakespeare (and other classical writers) can stimulate the brain. For me, what stood out from earlier studies, was the attention to the duration of...
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Family Trees for Shakespeare’s Histories
My monthly Shakespeare reading group is gearing up to do the history plays. For the next eight months, starting this Sunday, we’re going to be working our way through the two tetralogies. Shakespeare,...
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