SHAKESPEARE: ENACTING THE TEXT

June 28– August 1, 2009

Newark DE and Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

 

Jay Halio

 

Now let us tell you a little about ourselves. Jay Halio has been teaching Shakespeare for over fifty years and has written about various aspects of the plays, including articles on film and television versions. Educated at Syracuse and Yale, he taught at the University of California, Davis, until coming to Delaware as Professor of English in 1968. He retired in 2003 and had a Fulbright lectureship to Bulgaria the year following, where again he taught Shakespeare. Some of his articles on Shakespeare have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Literature/Film Quarterly, and an essay, "Teaching Shakespeare's Plays as Plays," in Teaching Shakespeare (1977). His book, developed in part from previous NEH seminars, called Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance (1988) is unfortunately now out of print but will be made available. Jay has also has edited several plays-- Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear--as well as a casebook, Understanding The Merchant of Venice. He has written a book on A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Performance (Manchester University Press). He is currently editing All's Well That Ends Well for the New Variorum Shakespeare.

 

 

The Directors

Leslie Reidel

Leslie Reidel, Professor of the Theatre at the University of Delaware since 1989, has been teaching theater for over thirty years and has directed more than twenty productions of Shakespeare's plays at festivals all over the country (e.g. Colorado, Utah, etc.). Trained at Muhlenberg College and Temple University, he was a founding member of the Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1978), which moved to the University of Delaware in 1989. He has served as critic for the Philadelphia Review and Philadelphia After Dark and was the resident director for the Great American Children’s Theatre for fourteen years. He is currently resident director of Philadelphia’s Enchantment Theatre Company. Recent work includes productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival as well as plays by Shaw, Coward, and O’Neill at the University of Delaware. He is currently directing  As You Like It for the PTTP.

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