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Welcome to the Exclusive Members Only Page of the Maryland Shakespeare Festival.
As part of the royal family, we know that you love all things
Shakespeare and so we have designed this resource just for you!
Updated monthly, you will find the insider's view of
Maryland Shakespeare Festival's growth as a company, as well as:
In-depth Explorations of Any Play We Present
Special Member Events
Fun Shakespeare-Related Activities
and Links!
Last updated: 9/13/07
Book and Play Discussions:
TBA
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What is Original Practices?
www.OriginalPractices.com
USEFUL BOOKS FOR THE PRACTITIONER AND SCHOLAR:
Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters by Alan Dessen
Recovering Shakespeare’s Theatrical Vocabulary by Alan Dessen
Shakespeare’s First Texts: Folio Scripts by Neil Freeman
Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London by Andrew Gurr
The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 by Andrew Gurr
Staging in Shakespeare’s Theatres by Andrew Gurr and Mariko Ichikawa
New Issues in the Reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Theatre by Franklin J. Hildy
Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe by Pauline Kiernan
Making Shakespeare; From Stage to Page by Tiffany Stern
Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan by Tiffany Stern
Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach by Patrick Tucker
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Websites Galore!
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All About Rapiers: A wonderful and very thorough look at the weapons and fighting style of the renaissance written specifically for students on the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts webpage.
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Shakespeare in the Classroom: This site, sponsored in part by the Folger Library, provides tons of wonderful teaching tools and resources about Shakespeare and his plays. A must see.
- Romeo & Juliet Navigator on Click Notes: A very thorough resource for all thing Romeo & Juliet
- “Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet”: Sort of the Granddaddy of Shakespeare Sites, has lots of links to heavy duty scholarly sites, and is often updated. Worth checking out regularly.
- The Shakespeare Resource Center: Nicely concise History and interesting information pages. Lots of very good links.
- Internet Shakespeare Editions: First folio Texts with good publishing histories and all the original spellings etc., great resources for cutting plays and more advanced study.
- www.Shakespeare-Online.com: This is a great site, with lots of fun and lighthearted Shakespeare Information and a quiz!
- Silva Rhetoricae: The Garden of Rhetoric: For more advanced students who are interested in rhetoric.
- “Shakespeare Illustrated”: Lots of beautiful pictures and historical paintings.
- The Shakespearean Insulter: A great deal of fun, be insulted again and again from the plays or use an insult kit to create your own.
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Meet our New Director of Education: Megan McDonough! |
. . . MSF is thrilled to welcome Megan McDonough to our staff as the Director of Education. Megan received her MFA in Directing and her M.Litt. in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance from Mary Baldwin College (the same Graduate Program in which our Artistic Director, Becky Kemper, is currently matriculating!), and her BA in Dramatic Art from the University of CA at Santa Barbara. In her over twenty years in theatre, Megan has directed over 25 plays, but she is most proud of her productions of Queen Margaret: Tiger's Heart Wrapped in a Woman's Hide (a play conflated by Megan of Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI plays and Richard III ), A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Durang, Durang (she does do things other than Shakespeare, sometimes). Megan has also worked as the Manager of Marketing and Development for the Young Artists Ensemble in Thousand Oaks, CA, and as the Associate Managing Director of Speaking of Stories in Santa Barbara, CA. |
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MSF is currently undergoing a strategic planning process to define the next five years of exciting growth. If you would like to participate please contact Becky Kemper at Becky@mdshakes.org |
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The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
(insight from Director Megan McDonough on her experience with our play of the month coming soon)
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WRITE DOWN YOUR GUESSES TO ALL 10 QUESTIONS BEFORE CHECKING THE ANSWERS
- What play begins with the words, “Who’s there?...”
- What play ends with a dance following the line, “Strike up, pipers!”
- Which character dies by swallowing fire?
- Which character calls his dog, “the sourest natured dog that lives”?
- Where did the “maw and gulf of the ravin’d salt-sea shark” end up?
- Which character once played the part of Julius Caesar?
- Who is described as “A fellow almost damn’d in a fair wife,” and by whom?
- Who swears “by the simplicity of Venus’ doves”?
- Which character exits pursued by a bear
- Who is called:
- A lump of foul deformity
- A diffus’d infection of a man
- An elvish-mark’d, abortive rooting hog
- A slander of his mother’s heavy womb and loathed issue of his father’s loins
- A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death
- A bottled spider, a foul hunch-back’d toad
- A bloody dog now dead
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