Rewatching the classic Trek episode "The Conscience of the King," which features a Shakespearean acting troupe. In one scene, McCoy…
I'm slated to teach Shakespeare this fall... blogging this for future reference. Six Shakespearean actors and directors go in search…
Attending this was one of the handful of cultural treats my wife and I splurged on during our grad student…
For me, the July 4 weekend marks the halfway point for the summer -- if it's not the chronological center…
My undergraduates are working their way through N. Katherine Hayle's My Mother Was a Computer. They told me that they…
I have the delightful privilege of teaching The Tempest in a literature class, to a student who's performing in it…
I believe I feel like a pribbling idle-headed mumble-news. (Thanks for the link, Jessica!) Tastefully Offensive | Premium Funny: Shakespeare…
While teaching Richard II in a Shakespeare class, I had to get up to speed on the rules and customs…
Why read? You'd think that with the e-book and the Internet, with Google searching and channel surfing, the experience of…
It might be a stretch to call "The Poseidon Adventure" science fiction. It was part of the all-star disaster genre,…
If you could recommend a game as a community-building activity for your school, what would you recommend? I thought about…
A skillful exercise, this sonnet blog. Such parser game nostalgia warms my heart. You might be int'rested in Graham Nelson's…
Not just a student laptop program. Griffin Technology Advantage Technology Provided to Every Student Beginning in the fall of 2010,…
Harvard redesigns its English major, removing required entry-level surveys and sophomore seminars.In their place, courses in the four new categories--"Arrivals,"…
A short comedy sketch that emphasizes the importance of finding the right editor.
Great little tool from bookrags. Use a drop-down list to construct your own sonnet, using lines from Shakespeare's corpus. This…
I took a little break from evaluating a close reading assignment in order to look into the online chatter about…
A luminous group of anti-Stratfordians write:Not one play, not one poem, not one letter in Mr. Shakspere's own hand has…