Shakespeare Magazine ~ Winter 2001

Shakespeare
Volume 5, Issue 1
WINTER 2001

All-Star Teaching

It's the Stagecraft, Stupid!
Laurie Dennis shows how Shenandoah Shakespeare emphasizes Elizabethan staging and audience interaction.

Using Socratic Seminars to Hook Sophomores into Shakespeare
Melissa Borgmann primes students for Shakespeare with philosophical questions about Corinthians 13:1-8.

Shakespeare on Air
Laura Sparrow uses radio broadcasts to engage students in a study of The Merchant of Vencie.

Shakespeare for the Haves and Have-nots
Julie Lachance bridges the gap between the "upstairs kids" and the "downstairs kids."

Shakespeare in the Delta
James Whorton brings Shakespeare to a rural school in Louisiana.

Shakespeare for Short People
Georgia Shakespeare Education Director Kathleen McManus tells how she gets the most out of young actors.

Why Memorize: Reasons Beyond "Because It's Required"
Joanne Tulonen finds extra-curricular value in memorization.

"Here's What I Do"
A variety of teachers give their techniques for helping students memorize.

Shakespeare Magazine ~ Volume 5, Issue 1
Patrick Tucker demonstrates what a cue script of
Shakespeare's day would look like.

FEATURE STORY

First Folio "Secrets" Decoded in Modern Cue Scripts
Patrick Tucker finds power in the practices of theatre companies of Shakespeare's day.

Tucker believes a Globe actor would have received not a script with the whole play but a scroll containing only his individual part, just as Bottom and Snout and the rest did, and that before a performance the actor would have "conned" his part on his own with the help of the clues Shakespeare provided in the script. Going into a performance, an actor would know only his part, and the three-word "cue" that preceded each speaking part. Tucker has deduced that the actors would meet immediately before a performance to prepare the practicalities of entrances, exits, fights, and dances, but would have experienced the complete play for the first time only during the first full performance before the Globe audience.

BROADSHEET
Throwing Lines About--Ralph Cohen's exercise to increase audience awareness.

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A compendium of courses, conferences, and theatre performances around the world.

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