In the spring of 1992,Shakespeare came to Clemson as never before. Visitors were invited to meet him again for the first time. In mid-February with a Clemson Players' production of Romeo and Juliet, the Bard became the focus of a campus-wide Shakespeare Festival that featured public performances, lectures, classroom study, and a week-long conference on "Teaching the Other Shakespeare."...(click here for more)
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In mid-February with a Clemson Players' production of Romeo and Juliet, the Bard became the focus of a campus-wide Shakespeare Festival that featured public performances, lectures, classroom study, and a week-long conference on "Teaching the Other Shakespeare."
During the featured week of the festival, March 8-13, Clemson University played host to meetings of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, the Curriculum Congress of the State of South Carolina, the REACH (Rural Educational Alliance for Collaborative Humanities) program for high schools across the state, the Bingham Trust Performing and Writing Across Cultures Program, and Elderhostel. In addition, the Society of English Graduate Students held a conference focussing on teaching, reading, and performing the "other" Shakespeare, and the University Union sponsored a film festival featuring Branagh's Henry V, Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Kurosawa's Ran, and Greenway's Prospero's Books.
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Romeo and Juliet, Clemson Players
Feb. 18-23, Feb. 15-March 1
The Merchant of Venice, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
March 8
Macbeth, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
March 9
Much Ado About Nothing, Actors of the London Stage
March 10, 12
The Tarnished Phoenix:
A Portrait of D.H. Lawrence,
Actors from the London Stage
March 11
