Text Box: This is a course in teaching Shakespeare. It is designed explicitly for students who imagine that they will be presented with the challenge and the pleasure of teaching our most prominent canonical author in junior high, high school, or college settings. Shakespeare's texts—in their linguistic density, their dramatic intensity, their cultural awareness, their communal impact—did important and controversial cultural work in their own day, and they can continue to do so now. In this course we will use some of the methods of the Folger Shakespeare Library's long-standing NEH-sponsored "Teaching Shakespeare Institute"—journal writing, wordplay, soliloquy analysis, adaptative and improvised scenarios, scene work, comparison of videos—coupled with the instructor's historical focus on the confluence of political and sex-gender issues, to remake and reinvigorate Shakespeare's texts for today's students. Class will focus on three of the most commonly taught Shakespeare plays from his four major genres—from the romantic comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; from the history plays, 1 Henry IV; from the tragedies, Hamlet; from the romances, The Tempest—coupled with Russ McDonald's excellent Bedford Companion to Shakespeare as background and source book. In addition, we may take illustrative examples from other plays commonly taught in the lower-grade curriculum: from the romantic comedies, Twelfth Night; from the histories, Richard III and Henry V; from the tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, and Lear; from the romances, The Tempest. The instructor, herself a member of the summer 1996 "Teaching Shakespeare Institute" and the recipient of both the Chancellor's Award and the Milton Plesur Award for excellence in teaching, looks forward to sharing the intellectual and community-building force of these plays with her students so that they can share them with theirs. Format will be highly participatory; evaluation will be largely conducted around the actual production of materials—journals, exercises, lesson plans, scenarios, research projects—to be used in future classrooms. Text Box: Teaching Shakespeare Professor Barbara Bono Wednesdays 4:00 - 6:40 Reg. No. 286673 Text Box: 414 Text Box: Topics in African-American History Professor Jason Young Mondays 9:00 - 11:40 Reg. No. 490375 Text Box: 430 Text Box: Course description available from the Department of History, 546 Park Hall.