Scholarship and Performance: Teaching Shakespeare's Plays

FAIN: ES-250902-16

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc. (New York, NY 10014-2840)
Katie Beganics (Project Director: February 2016 to July 2018)

A two-week institute for twenty-five schoolteachers focusing on the representations of family life in William Shakespeare’s plays Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and The Winter’s Tale. 

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) proposes a two-week Summer Institute for school teachers on Scholarship and Performance: A Combined Approach to Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays, to be held July 12 – 28, 2017, at TFANA’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. Offered to a national group of 25 middle and high school teachers, the Institute uses a carefully integrated approach to exploring text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance in three Shakespeare plays. This year’s participants will study TWELFTH NIGHT, HAMLET and THE WINTER'S TALE under the guidance of leading Shakespeare scholars and master teaching artists. The Institute will focus on Shakespeare’s representations of family life, with an emphasis on new approaches to issues of gender, authority, marriage, service, and friendship in the plays; recent scholarship on Shakespeare; and research in other fields.