Shakespeare
Volume 6, Issue 1
WINTER 2002

Who is Hamlet?

Hamlet and the Truthful Dead:  What a long strange trip it's been
Gary Baughn, a high school teacher, relates how he came to terms with the Dane.

Confessions of an Erstwhile Hamlet-Hater
Deborah Payne Fisk, an American University theatre scholar, tells all.

Finding Young Hamlet
John R. Ford looks at three recent productions.

Wipe that Smile off Your Face, Mona Lisa
Georgetown professor Bruce R. Smith explains how he uses a classroom exercise to de-center Hamlet.

Cartoon
"Alas, Poor Bob" by Keith Robinson and Lisa Wasserman.

NEWS ON THE RIALTO
A compendium of courses, conferences, and theatre performances around the world. 

Adrian Lester plays Hamlet in a Peter Brook adaptation at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2001.  The production opened
in Paris before traveling to New York, Chicago, and Seattle..

IN THE CLASSROOM
The Inclusive Shakespeare
Jennifer A. Gerdes Borek illustrates some ways to use Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences to teach students with learning disabilities.

ONLINE BONUS ARTICLES
Four Hamlet Fictions

• Why I Won't Play Hamlet Ever Again
  a one-act play by Sandeep Bhatnagar 
• Mom, Shakespeare, and Me
  a short five-act play by Clare Higgins 
• The Witness
  a short story by Ronald Morris 
• Ophelia in the Garden
  a poem by Carmelo Militano 

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