Scholarship and Performance: A Combined Approach to Teaching Shakespeare's Plays

FAIN: ES-50582-14

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc. (New York, NY 10014-2840)
Katie Beganics (Project Director: March 2014 to June 2016)

A two-week summer institute for twenty-five school teachers focusing on the theme "Politics and Persuasion" in William Shakespeare's plays As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.

Theatre for a New Audience requests a grant of $136,071 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a two-week Summer Institute for school teachers in the summer of 2015 on Scholarship and Performance: A Combined Approach to Teaching Shakespeare's Plays. The Institute will be offered to 25 middle and high school teachers from around the country and will take place at Theatre for a New Audience's new Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. Focusing on the theme of Politics and Persuasion in As You Like it, Julius Caesar and Macbeth, the Institute uses a carefully integrated approach to exploring text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance.