#Shakespeare

Gina Femia

HarryTheHoudini

Like, let's just stop doing Shakespeare for 5 years and see what happens. Oh, the slots you could fill with some of the most incredible work. I mean, what's the

Matthew Ryan

MatRyanELATeach

I disagree with much of what is presented by #DisruptTexts on this page. 1/5https://disrupttexts.org/2018/10/25/5-disrupting-shakespeare/ “Any [every] playwright” doesn’t have literary merit. And some have more than others. Artists ar

Mad Library Scientist

MadLibrarySci

Teach him, but teach him BETTER. Do away with having students awkwardly read through lines in class.https://twitter.com/sljournal/status/1353056193271394304 Teach them as PLAYS. As in, watch performances of the material. Everyone knows

Sarah Mulhern Gross

thereadingzone

Just learned I'm "famous" because I am quoted in a bunch of crazy articles about how awful it is that English teachers aren't teaching Shakespeare. This will be a great

Huddersfield Exposed

HuddExposed

If you've seen this in the news today, would it surprise you to know that Shakespeare was born in Lockwood, Huddersfield? Local innkeeper Henry Hirst was such a fan of

Zito

_Zeets

Anyway, we were poor as they come but one of the first things my parents did when we bought a house here was to designate one of the rooms as

Dr. Jason Dorwart

HamOnWheels

Today in Theatre and Film History + The Details Your College Professor Left OutJune 26, 14831/6Richard III is coronated King of England. 2/6 Richard III had mild scoliosis, but was

Uriel

Urylle

Researched more about the "Great" Sir Francis Bacon; turns out the jesuits wrote Shakespeare not him (read both pages 21,22) English Catholic Earl From the Book: Did the Jesuits write

GCSE Macbeth

GCSE_Macbeth

ACT 1 SC 3:MACBETH: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”I’ve been thinking about this line a lot. What does Macbeth mean, why does he say it,

GCSE Macbeth

GCSE_Macbeth

Students spend a good couple of terms studying Shakespeare in KS3, but rarely if ever does that knowledge directly inform their GCSE responses.It might be a good way into AO3

Brian Cerberus Wilson

cerberus399bc

Carl Schmitt's book on Hamlet is pretty cool. He tries to steer between psychological readings of the play and readings that completely reduce it to historical happenstance. I'm surprised by

Andy

__codexterous

1) Literary value is not static. Discussing the value ascribed to any text is a fundamental aspect of doing English2) Shakespeare isn’t going anywhere3) Thinking about the reasons for his

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ElizETavares

Teaching Shakespeare plays alongside counterparts that feat. characters of color in repertory is not only possible, but historically representative! A quick thread here to amplify Horacio Sierra’s arguments made in

Niccoló Machiavelli

italianswag1469

During my time in quarantine, I've been able to do a fair amount of reading and have compiled a list of my favorite literary characters that I'd like to share

Michael Blanding

michaelblanding

THREAD: In 1555, a young Thomas North traveled with a delegation to Rome to reconcile England with the Pope. In a new book, Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter argue the

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

1) A thread of fate and fortune that will make you ask "..can it really be?" A little-known treasure of glittering gold whose discovery almost seems to defy belief. This

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