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Title:
"Strategies for Teaching Shakespeare Online"
Author:
Bradway, Tara.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Miller, Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom, 209–24.
Annotation:

Compares teaching of Shakespeare in person and online, noting similarities and differences. Focuses on undergraduate class for non-English Literature majors. Notes how online teaching can help address common issues for students studying Shakespeare, giving students more time and privacy to respond to linguistically challenging material. Offers sample assignment based on Tempest but which can be adjusted for any play by any author. 

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Title:
Much Ado about Nothing
Director:
Daxter, Josie.
Type:
Production
Year:
2023
Additional:

Adapted by Debris Stevenson. Maisie Newman, assistant director. Sets by Zoë Hurwitz, costumes by Nicola Stimpson, and lighting by Martha Godfrey.

Venue:

Produced by National Youth Theatre (https://www.nyt.org.uk) at Duke of York's Theatre, London, 7-10 February 2023.

Annotation:

With Hanna Zoé Ankrah (Friar), Tomás Azócar-Nevin (Conrade), Eleanor Booth (Doctor Dogberry), Daniel Cawley (Benedick), Chloe Cooper (Ursula/Sexton), Jack D'Arcy (Don Pedro), Jez Davess-Humphrey (Claudio), Jessica Enemokwu (Leonato), Isolde Fenton (Beatrice), Kira Golightly (Verges), Thuliswa Magwaza (Hero), Dalumuzi Moyo (Borachio), Olivia Ng (George Seacole), Jasmine Ricketts (Don John), Nathaly Sabino (Margaret), and Jerome Scott (Balthazar/Hugh Oatcake).

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Title:
Macbeth (an undoing)
Director:
Harris, Zinnie.
Type:
Production
Year:
2023
Additional:

Adapted by Zinnie Harris. Frances Poet, dramaturg. Nerida Bradley, assistant director. Sets by Tom Piper, costumes by Alex Berry, lighting by Lizzie Powell, and music by Oguz Kaplangi.

Venue:

Produced by the Royal Lyceum Theatre at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 4-25 February 2023.

Annotation:

With Liz Kettle (Carlin), Adam Best (Macbeth), Nicole Cooper (Lady Macbeth), Marc Mackinnon (Duncan), Jade Ogogua (Lady Macduff), Paul Tinto (Macduff), and James Robinson (Banquo). 

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Title:
Die vergessene Sympathie: Zu Geschlichte und Gegenwart literarischer Wirkung [The Forgotten Sympathy: On the Past and Present of Literary Impact]
Author:
Lobsien, Verena Olejniczak.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Paderborn: Brill Fink, 2022. xvi + 481 pp.
Annotation:

Explores understandings of sympathy from Middle Ages to eighteenth century. Considers significance of sympathy in literary, philosophical, and historical works, including in poems and plays by Shakespeare, focusing on Rape of Lucrece and Two Noble Kinsmen.

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Title:
TL;DR Shakespeare: Dynamically Illustrated Plot and Character Summaries for 12 of Shakespeare's Greatest Plays
Author:
SparkNotes.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Ontario: Sterling Publishers, 2022. 96 pp.
Annotation:

Provides brief plot summaries, character descriptions, analysis of key events, and explanation of play resolution for twelve Shakespeare plays. Aims to be an accessible and quick guide for students to get "up to speed" on Shakespeare's most popular comedies and tragedies.

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Title:
Shakespeare: Il male, il potere, la magia [Shakespeare: Evil, Power, Magic]
Author:
Ciliberto, Michele.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Pisa: Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 2022. 256 pp.
Annotation:

Investigates influence of Italian culture on early modern England. Considers Italian influence in Shakespeare's writing of characters like Hamlet, Iago, Macbeth, King Lear, and more.

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Title:
Maestre d'amore: Giulietta, Ofelia, Desdemona e le altre [Teachers of Love: Juliet, Ophelia, Desdemona, and Others]
Author:
Fusini, Nadia.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2021
Publication Information:
Torino: Einaudi, 2021. 197 pp.
Annotation:

Discusses phenomenon of love in its many forms in Shakespeare's plays. Focuses specifically on love experienced by Shakespeare's women characters, especially Juliet, Ophelia and Desdemona.

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