“Shakespeare-mania” hits classrooms, stage
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March 22, 2010
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Dressed from head to toe as Queen Elizabeth, Ms. Jan Haar was on a mission to prove to her students that Shakespeare is someone worth teaching. Ms. Haar surprised and stunned her English I students in late February when she made a dramatic entrance into her classes. Taking on the voice and persona of Queen Elizabeth, who happened to be a great fan of the now world-famous author and poet, Ms.. Haar shared a myriad of facts and stories about theatre and Shakespeare.
An actor in theatre herself, it is no surprise that the Shakespeare unit is one of Ms. Haar’s favorite to teach.
“I love the excitement and the drama of it all,” she explained. “Shakespeare’s not boring; he couldn’t have left all those audience members interested if he was boring.”
Many of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies are part of the curriculum in English classes and electives throughout high school. And after studying Shakespeare’s works in class and attending last month’s Theatre department production, The Taming of the Shrew, the name Shakespeare and words such as soliloquy, bard, sonnet and minstrel should be as common as household names.
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