Shakespeare Plays the Classroom

by Omans, Stuart E.; O'Sullivan, Maurice J.

• ISBN13: 9781561642779
• ISBN10: 1561642770
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Pineapple Press

Summary

Bringing Shakespeare to the Sunshine State, this book gathers together a talented group of teachers, choreographers, directors, set designers, musicians, costumers, actors, and artists to discuss how they have adapted the bard's monologues in Miami, assassinated Julius Caesar on the steps of Tallahassee's Capitol, trained students to duel in Florida's Panhandle, placed Shylock on trial in Orlando, and transformed Gainesville into Puck's magical forest. This guide for teachers and lovers of literature and theater is an original collection of essays exploring the idea that Shakespeare's plays are best approached playfully through performance. Based on their wide-ranging experience as theater professionals and teachers in Florida, New York, London, and Stratford, the authors celebrate Shakespeare's continuing appeal to our complex, diverse culture. The essays include reflections on acting by the Royal Shakespeare Company's longest-serving member. And there's practical advice on acting; directing; staging fights; designing costumes; and integrating music, dance, ma

Table of Contents

Introduction On Play and Plays	5	(4)
Maurice J. O'Sullivan
Stuart E. Omans
Foreword Play's the Thing	9	(4)
John F. Andrews
Prologue At Play in the Neighborhood	13	(12)
Fred Rogers
Playing with Shakespeare
Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method in It: Common Questions and Answers about Shakespeare in the Classroom	25	(5)
Betty Donald
Stand up, Listen, Whisper, Whistle, and Shout Your Way to Shakespeare: An Approach to a Three-Dimensional Read-Through	30	(10)
Stuart E. Omans
Oh, Had I but Space Enough and Time: Rethinking Space	40	(17)
Ben Gunter
What's Reality Anyhow? Puppets and A Midsummer Night's Dream	57	(7)
Ellie Conde
Lindsay Hunter
Heather Williams
Lauren Yarborough
Playing Games with People: Fifteen Steps Towards Ensemble	64	(13)
Judith Rubinger
Playing with Language and Character
Speaking Shakespeare	77	(5)
Tony Church
He's Alive!: Making Shakespeare Compelling in the Classroom	82	(10)
Bruce Miller
Adventuring Between the Lines	92	(13)
Sybil Lines
Speak the Speech Trippingly on the Tongue: Reading Shakespeare Aloud	105	(20)
Bruce Miller
Playing with Productions
Suit the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action: Principles of a Good Director	125	(4)
Stephen Hollis
Beyond Playing Pirate: Alternative Methods of Staging Violence	129	(8)
Ian M. Borden
Where Shall This Music Be?	137	(4)
Daniel K. Flick
If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On	141	(8)
John Carpenter
Romeo Rocks: New Tunes in Old Jugs	149	(4)
Susan Baron
Patricia Hagelin
Mike Zella
The Soul of a Man Is His Clothes: Costume in Context	153	(17)
Sandria Reese
Why Do You Dress Me in Borrowed Robes?: Creating Renaissance Costume	170	(14)
J. Ann Singleton
We Will Every One Be Masked	184	(7)
Theo Lotz
Playing with Texts
The Most Unkindest Cut of All: Editing A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Classroom	191	(10)
Joyce Rose
Andrew Smyth
What's in a Name? Behind-the-Scenes Language in Romeo and Juliet	201	(10)
Alan Nordstrom
His Letters Bear His Mind: Re-Writing Shakespeare	211	(10)
Maurice J. O'Sullivan
Playing with Challenges
Words, Words, Words: Shakespeare for Students with Limited English Proficiency	221	(6)
Silvia Hurtado de Mendoza
Setting the Stage for the Reluctant Reader	227	(10)
Noelle Morris
Andrea Moussaoui
The Young Company: A Shakespearean Story of Transformation	237	(9)
Judith Rubinger
Epilogue Shakespeare, Summer, and Kids	246	(21)
Sidney Homan
Index	267