1999 "Shakespeare as a Children's Writer" VIII

CSF VIII, co-sponsored by the Children's Literature Symposium and the Yeats Conference, featured five plays in full production by the Clemson Players (The Tempest), Shenandoah Shakespeare Express (The Merchant of Venice, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Macbeth), and Greenville's Warehouse Theatre (Twelfth Night), in addition to five workshops with teams of actors, directors, and scholars.
Workshops Colloquium Films Plays

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The Tempest, Clemson Players
Tri-Art performance, Feb. 15

The Tempest, Clemson Players
Feb. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Much Ado About Nothing, Georgia Shakespeare Festival
Tri-Art performance, Feb. 17

The Merchant of Venice, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
Feb. 21, 23

The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
Feb. 22

Macbeth, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
Feb. 23

Macbeth, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
Tri-Art performance, Feb. 24

Twelfth Night, Warehouse Theatre
Feb. 26

Four Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/when the Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange, Henderson Players of S.C. State University
Feb. 27

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Twelth Night, Helena Bonham Carter
Feb. 14

Animated Tales: The Comedies and Romance,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Tempest
Feb. 15

Animated Tales: The Tragedies,
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello
Feb. 16

Macbeth, Trevor Nunn
Feb. 17

Prospero's Books, Peter Greenaway
Feb. 18

Colloquium. . . Back to top

"History of Shakespeare in Children's Literature"
by Charles Frey
Feb. 22

"Shakespeare in the Secondary Classroom"
by Jeanne Roberts
Feb. 22

"Anti-Semitism and The Merchant of Venice"
by Ralph Cohen
Feb. 22, 23

"Shakespeare's Animated Tales"
by Herb Coursen
Feb. 23

"Shakespeare Steps Out: Shakespeare in the Primary Grades"
by Janet Field-Pickering
Feb. 24

Panel Discussion
"Shakespeare as a Children's Writer"
with Holt Lecturers
Feb. 24

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The Albert Hamilton Holt lecturers discussed Shakespeare's conversion toand canonization as a children's writer. As in the past, lecturers introduced performances of the plays with brief "informances" about thesources, genesis, and dramatic history of the play and its place in theShakespearean canon. All workshops by Shenandoah Shakespeare:

The Audience as the Actor's Ally
Feb. 22

Selecting a Casket: Directorial Choices in the Merchant of Venice
Feb. 22

Sorcery and Rituals in Macbeth
Tri-Art Charles Paz Memorial Workshop
Feb. 23

Scales of Justice: Anti-Semitism in the Merchant of Venice
Feb. 23