11/4/2022 0 Comments Three witches macbeth![]() ![]() I might have even split some molecules, since I am playing all three witches simultaneously. I tried to put all my molecules to work in today’s video of the three witches from Macbeth. My smart friend Maria always knew that, and I should have listened. He’s got to involve all your molecules, because that’s the only way to fully appreciate what he’s given us. Like any playwright, he’s got to be shared and read aloud and watched and heard. The guy’s a genius, did you know? But you still won’t find his complete works on my nightstand…because Shakespeare is a team sport. Teaching the play forced me to look at it more closely than I’d ever looked before, and what treasures I found there! Every line a gem, and I could not wait to get to that class every day to share that sparkly goodness with the students. But then we dove in…and I fell head over heels in love. I wasn’t afraid of teaching Shakespeare - it was theater, after all, and I used drama in the classroom even for grammar, so I anticipated a colorful and chaotic unit. ![]() I became a teacher, and was faced with leading my tenth graders through Hamlet. O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. And when Shakespeare in the Park started up in the summer, I always joined her in Central Park at 7am to be first in line for tickets.īut my little secret was that the part I really looked forward to was not the show, but the day in the park with Maria and what we called the Rent-a-Crowd: thirty or so theater and other types who converged for these sorts of events. I let my dear friend, Maria the Shakespeare Fanatic, occasionally drag me to her monthly Shakespeare reading group. Sure, I studied him as an undergrad, wrote a bunch of papers, stroked my chin and hmmm’d in all the right places. I liked him quite a lot, and I always loved his movies…but we just didn’t connect on a really deep level, you know? Which is kind of weird considering my background in poetry and theater. I have a confession.I didn’t always love Shakespeare. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. ![]()
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