Text Variants and Teaching Shakespeare: HAMLET, OTHELLO, and KING LEAR

FAIN: ES-50013-03

Illinois State University (Normal, IL 61790-3040)
Ron Fortune (Project Director: March 2003 to May 2005)
Ron Strickland (Co Project Director: March 2003 to May 2005)

A four-week institute for 25 school teachers to study the Quarto and Folio texts and film versions of HAMLET, OTHELLO, and KING LEAR.

Associated Products

"Text Variants and Teaching Hamlet" (Article)
Title: "Text Variants and Teaching Hamlet"
Author: Edison Barber
Abstract: Draws on textual variations among the quarto and folio versions of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a basis for engaging students in considering the role of choice and its effects on the quality of the final product in their own writing.
Year: 2005
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Illinois English Bulletin
Publisher: Illinois Association of Teachers of English

"Text Variants and Teaching Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear" (Article)
Title: "Text Variants and Teaching Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear"
Author: Ron Fortune
Abstract: Provides an overview of a four-week 2004 NEH Summer Institute that focused on the critical and pedagogical uses of the significant textual differences found in the Quarto and Folio versions of three of Shakespeare's most well-known and widely taught plays: Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear.
Year: 2005
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Illinois English Bulletin
Publisher: Illinois Association of Teachers of English

"Substituting Shakespeare: Utilizing Film to Advance Teaching in the Classroom" (Article)
Title: "Substituting Shakespeare: Utilizing Film to Advance Teaching in the Classroom"
Author: Bill Hutner
Abstract: Draws on the principles that inform studying and analyzing variations among written and performed texts to describe an approach to incorporating film into the study of Shakespeare's plays at high school level.
Year: 2005
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Illinois English Bulletin
Publisher: Illinois Association of Teachers of English

"Using Film, without Guilt, in Teaching Shakespeare." (Article)
Title: "Using Film, without Guilt, in Teaching Shakespeare."
Author: Rebecca Joyner
Abstract: Focuses on the transposition of visual elements in a Shakespeare text to cinematic representations in films offering versions of the same text. Examines how these transpositions can engage students in the study of the Shakespeare play by allowing them to see how different directors, as readers, respond differently to what the printed text offers them. Provides an exemplary lesson plan focusing on similarities and differences between Laurence Olivier's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Ran.
Year: 2005
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Illinois English Bulletin
Publisher: Illinois Association of Teachers of English

"A Teacher Program That Changed Teachers" (Book Section)
Title: "A Teacher Program That Changed Teachers"
Author: Janice Neuleib
Author: Ron Fortune
Author: Claire Lamonica
Editor: Thomas C. Thompson
Abstract: Discusses the history of school-colege articulation in English at Illinois State Universiy with a spoecial section explaining the role that prior NEH Insitutes for school teachers and the upcoming 2004 NEH Institute on text variants in Shakespeare have played and continue to play in this history.
Year: 2002
Access Model: Book
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Book Title: Teaching Writing in High School and College: Conversations and Collaborations
ISBN: 0814109756

"The Openness of Writing in Print and Digital Discourses" (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: "The Openness of Writing in Print and Digital Discourses"
Author: Ron Fortune
Abstract: Explores how the non-linear and non-hierarchical aspects of reading that have been identified as a unique dimension of digital texts, particularly hypertexts, have always been present in how readers have processed print texts. Draws on the growing emphasis in Shakespeare studies over the last 25 years on text variants and the concept of revision in Shakespeare to make this point. Specifically uses the materials presented by visiting scholars and teacher participants in the 2004 NEH Summer Institute to document this perspective on digital and printed texts.
Date: 04/05/2008
Conference Name: Conference on College Composition and Communication

"' From My Own Imagination: Literary Forgery, Reflection, and the Work of Writing" (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: "' From My Own Imagination: Literary Forgery, Reflection, and the Work of Writing"
Author: Ron Fortune
Abstract: Uses instances of literary forgery to examine how forgers attempt to produce authentic variations on a literary writer's work and how their efforts can draw attention to features of an author's work and to the work of writing in general that can otherwise be underplayed in literary analysis. Draws on the discussions that took place in the 2004 NEH Summer Institute covering John Payne Collier's forgery of the 1632 Second Folio to demonstrate the argument.
Date: 03/18/2010
Conference Name: Conference on College Composition and Communication

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