Michael P. Jensen,
Freelance Writer
Shakespeare in Ashland - Auditor Edition
ABOUT THIS CLASS
* This session iSHAKESPEARE IN ASHLAND Auditor Version:
July 30-August 2, 2019
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival provides a perfect workshop for the well documented educational value of teaching Shakespeare’s plays through performance. Our discussion will emphasize that, like all playwrights, Shakespeare wrote scripts for actors and audiences, and that a play presents possible multiple meanings only when performed. While the class has traditionally been intended for teachers, auditors are always welcome and will benefit from the intense discussions and performance analysis.
Auditors will receive a discounted rate for the class and everyone enrolled in Shakespeare in Ashland will receive discounted tickets when purchased through Dr. Shurgot.
INSTRUCTORS:
Michael W. Shurgot, PhD
(206) 522-8265 Home
Michael W. Shurgot received his PhD in Medieval and Renaissance Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught college Shakespeare courses for 39 years. He is the author of Stages of Play: Shakespeare’s Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance (Delaware, 1998); editor of North American Players of Shakespeare: A Book of Interviews (Delaware, 2007); and co-editor with Yu Jin Ko of Shakespeare’sSense of Character: From the Stage and On the Page (Ashgate, 2012). He reviews Shakespearean performances for Shakespeare Bulletin. His most recent publication is a retrospective essay on performance reviewing in the Fall, 2018 edition of Shakespeare Newsletter.
Michael P. Jensen (541) 708-0449 Home jensensh@hotmail.com. Mike has over 100 publications on early modern writers in Shakespeare Survey, Ben Jonson Journal, Shakespeare Bulletin, Borrowers and Lenders, and is Contributing Editor of Shakespeare Newsletter. He has written chapters in the books Shakespeare After Shakespeare, Burt, ed., (Greenwood, 2007), Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Radio, Terris, Oesterlen, and McKernan, eds. (British Universities Film and video Council, 2009), and The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts, Burnett, Streete, and Wray, eds., (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), and The Shakespearean World, Ormsby and Levenson, eds., (Routledge, 2017). The Battle of the Bard(Amsterdam University Press, 2018) is the first book on radio Shakespeare, and Shakespeare Scholars in Conversation is forthcoming in 2019 (McFarland). He is a General Editor of the Recreational Shakespeare series from Arc Humanities Press, a former adjunct professor at Southern Oregon University, and has lectured at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Wooden O Symposium, and the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
TO REGISTER: All registrations for this course must be made directly with Dr. Shurgot, either by phone or, preferably, by email: mwshurgot@earthlink.net.
MATERIALS FEE: $1.00 fee for copies of required readings and related handouts.
All MEETINGS: Will be at the Ashland Library with the first session at 9 am on Tuesday morning.
This represents a change. In the past our initial meeting was on the Bricks outside the Angus Bowmer Theater. This year we will have an extended class session Tuesday morning to prepare for the plays we will see Tuesday afternoon and evening.
WHAT TO BRING: Play texts, writing materials and a notebook, theatre glasses or small binoculars for close-up viewing
• Housing: You must arrange your own accommodations in Ashland. Once you are registered, go to stayashland.com to find a room.Which are the best editions of the Shakespeare's plays for this class? The is some latitude. The Folger, Arden, Cambridge, Oxford, Penguin, Bedford, Norton, Focus, (or similar) paperback editions of all the Festival’s Shakespeare plays will be fine. The plays to read are All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Macbeth, and The Comedy of Errors.
COURSE SCHEDULE 2019
Tuesday 7/30: 9:00 - 10:00am Introduction, handouts & paperwork
10 a.m. – Noon Introduce Comedy and All’s Well
1:30 p.m. - 4:30pm View La Comedia of Errors
8:00-11:00 p.m. View All’s Well That Ends Well
Wednesday 7/31: 9:00 - 10:30am Discuss Comedy and All’s Well To analyze productions
10:45 am – Noon Introduce Macbeth
8:00 - 11:00pm View Macbeth
Thursday 8/1: 9:00 - 10:45am Discuss Macbeth
11:00 am – Noon Introduce As You Like It
8:00 - 11:00pm View As You Like It
Friday 8/2: 9:00 - 10:00am Discuss As You Like It
10:30 am -11:30am Discussion with OSF actor
1:30 - 3pm Teacher session to discuss teaching methods
6 - 8pm Concluding Dinner location TBA
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