I've been staging Shakespeare plays with middle school students for 16 years. I fell in love with Shakespeare in college and have spent my adult digging deeper and deeper into his work. My work with Shakespeare sparked my passion for language, etymology, metaphor, epistemology, religion, philosophy, semiotics, poetry and, of course, theatre.
Over the years, several of the students I've staged Shakespeare with have become great fans of his work. However, I encounter endless resistance when I'm teaching his plays. I'm currently developing several introductory tools in the hopes of improving access to the canon by contextualizing the plays in history and explaining the poetic tropes he used to write the plays.
To that end, I'd love to know how you feel about Shakespeare. Is your only memory of Shakespeare having to slog through MACBETH in 10th grade English? Imagine the perfect introduction to Shakespeare. What would it be like?
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