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Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of renowned Shakespearean and co-founder of the American Shakespeare Center, Ralph Alan Cohen. Each contributor pivots off a production at the ASC’s Blackfriars Playhouse to explore Cohen’s abiding passion, the performance of the plays of William Shakespeare under their original theatrical conditions. Whether interested in early modern theatre history, the teaching of Shakespeare to high school students, or the performance of Shakespeare in twenty-first century America, each essay sheds light on the professing of Shakespeare today, whether on the page, on the stage, or in the classroom. Guided by the spirit of “universal lighting” – so central to the aesthetic of the American Shakespeare Center – Shakespeare in the Light illuminates the impact that the ASC and its founder have made upon the teaching, editing, scholarship, and performance of Shakespeare today.

Table of Contents

Introductions:
Being Ralph Cohen
Paul Menzer
A Runaway American Dream: The Birth of the American Shakespeare Center
Jim Warren

Part 1: In the Library
Actors as Evidence
Alan Armstrong
The Pressures of Immediacy: The Alchemist and Theatrical Magic
Evelyn Tribble
Text as performance as text: the King's disease in All's Well that Ends Well
Jeremy Lopez
Reading Lady Macbeth's Line, 3.4.117
George Walton Williams
Blackfriars Then and Now
Tiffany Stern
Taking Our Hats Off to Ralph
Andrew Gurr
Facts Don't Always Do What We Want Them To
Farah Karim-Cooper
Macbeth and the Power of Poetry
Russ McDonald

Part 2: In the Classroom
Othello: Three Notes for Dr Ralph to Query
Patrick Spottiswoode
“What wouldst thou do now”: The Visionary Impact of Shakespeare on a Small College Town
Mary Hill Cole and Marlena Hobson
Ralph Alan Cohen's Fearless Teaching: The Language of Shakespeare
Sally Southall

Part 3: On the Stage
Dionysus at Play with Antony and Cleopatra
Amy Cohen
“Change Place

Product details

Published Jul 23 2019
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781683936985
Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Illustrations 1 b/w illustrations;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Paul Menzer

Anthology Editor

Amy R. Cohen

Contributor

Amy R. Cohen

Contributor

Alan Armstrong

Contributor

Mary Hill Cole

Contributor

Matthew Davies

Contributor

Patrick Dooley

Contributor

Andrew Gurr

Contributor

Marlena Hobson

Contributor

John Harrell

Contributor

James Keegan

Contributor

Jeremy Lopez

Contributor

Russ McDonald

Contributor

Paul Menzer

Contributor

Tiffany Stern

Contributor

Evelyn Tribble

Contributor

Jim Warren

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