ABOUT THIS CLASS

SHAKESPEARE IN ASHLAND Auditor Version: July 17-20, 2018

SHAKESPEARE IN ASHLAND, Auditor Version: July 17-20, 2018vERSIO

Institutions as diverse as the Folger Shakespeare Library, The Shakespeare Association of America, and the National Council of Teachers of English vigorously support programs that emphasize the educational value of teaching Shakespeare’s plays through performance. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival provides a perfect workshop for this endeavor. Our discussion will emphasize that, like all playwrights, Shakespeare wrote scripts intended for actors and audiences, and that a play assumes its full possible meaning only when performed. While the class has traditionally been intended for teachers, auditors are most welcome and will also benefit from the intense discussions and performance analysis.

Participants will learn to acquaint themselves with Shakespeare’s plays in performance and understand how performance enhances all aspects of a script.

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

 mwshurgot@earthlink.net

  Michael W. Shurgot received his PhD in Medieval and Renaissance Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught college Shakespeare courses for 37 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’s Sense of Character: From the Stage and On the Page (Ashgate, 2012). He reviews Shakespearean performances for Shakespeare Bulletin.

Michael P. Jensen

(541) 708-0449

jensensh@hotmail.com

 Michael P. Jensen has over 100 publications on early modern writers in Shakespeare Survey, Ben Jonson Journal, Shakespeare Bulletin, Borrowers and Lenders, the is Contributing Editor of the “Talking Books” column in 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).  Forthcoming books are The Battle of the Bard (Arc Humanities) and Shakespeare Scholars Speak (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. 

$1.00 fee for pies of required readings and related handouts

MATERIALS FEE:

 $1.00 for copies of handouts

First Meeting:

9 a.m. on the first day of class on the bricks outside the Angus Bowmer Theater.

What to Bring:

Play texts plus writing materials and a notebook

Warm clothes for outdoor plays

Possibly, theater glasses, if you like them

Warm

Housing:

You must arrange your own accommodations in Ashland. Once you are registered and have paid your deposit, call hotels/motels in Ashland ASAP. Call (541) 482-2111 and ask for the Festival Brochure, which lists hotels, motels, and B&Bs.

COURSE SCHEDULE: SHAKESPEARE IN ASHLAND: 2018

(subject to change.)

 Henry V, Romeo & Juliet, Othello, and Love’s Labor’s Lost 

 7/17

 9 - 10 a.m.  Introduce course, handouts & paperwork

 10 - Noon   Optional Backstage Tour to learn about staging              

 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.  View Henry V    

 8:00 -11:00 p.m.  View Romeo and Juliet

 7/18

 9 – 10:30 a.m.   Discuss Henry V & R & J to analyze productions

 10:45 a.m. - Noon  Introduction to Othello

 8 - 11 p.m.  View Othello 

 7/19

 9-10:45  Discuss Othello to analyze production

 11-noon Introduce Love's Labour's Lost

 8-11 p.m.  View Love's Labour's Lost

 7/20 

 9-10 a.m. Discuss Love's Labour's Lost to analyze prodction

 10-11:30 a.m. Q & A with OSF actor, to analyze performance choices

 1:30-3:30 p.m. Discuss teaching methods to apply OSF experience to     teaching (this session is for those taking the class for credit) 

 6-8 p.m. Concluding Dinner, location TBA

 9-10 a.am.7/209-10

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