I’ve just updated the Shakespeare Reading Group Resource Page to include an additional 8 plays, for a total of 24.
So if your dream roles include Cleopatra or Falstaff, the Shakespeare Teacher has got your back. Enjoy!
I am pleased to announce the most significant update to this website since the addition of the blog in 2007.
I have just completed a project that I’ve been working on for many years. As long-time readers know, I’m part of a group that meets on a monthly basis to do readings of Shakespeare plays. To facilitate these readings, I put together a system for how to divide the plays into parts so that each reader gets a relatively equal-sized part and that nobody’s doing scenes with themselves. It makes everything run so smoothly, and I’ve always wanted to put those play divisions online so that others who wanted to do readings would have access to them. That website is now up. I hope that it will lead to more Shakespeare readings being held in the world, because they are a lot of fun.
Once my website had more than one thing on it (the blog and the reading group page), I thought it was time to create a home page, so I did. And, having a structure in place, I was able to elevate the Plantagenet family trees to have their own page, which is also now up. I also filled the home page with category links of blog features from over the years that I want to highlight.
So welcome to those new and returning! I look forward to our continuing this journey together!
Eleven years ago today, a new website emerged onto an unsuspecting Internet, dedicated to a mission of spreading joy, poetry, commentary, wordplay, and an original riddle every Thursday morning. This is a post about that website.
This past summer, I went through the archives and added 25 new category links for your browsing pleasure, including four politicians, three current events issues, seven individual Shakespeare plays, and one category collectively for the histories. I also added links for subjects I find myself writing about often, such as genealogy and game theory.
There are now 1,178 posts in 122 categories and 3,350 approved comments.
And I’ve just renewed the domain name for another year, so one day we can, at the very least, look forward to a January 1, 2019 post called “Twelve Years.”
What comes between the two posts is where the magic happens. I look forward to continuing the journey with you.
Thank you all for your patience as I took an unplanned hiatus from the blog. The summer’s over now, and it’s time to return to a regular schedule of writing.
I just added 22 new categories and went back through the archives to update them. So now, if you want to browse through posts that contain Classroom Ideas or my thoughts on Education Policy, those are now options available to you. You can see the Popular posts that, for whatever reason, generate the most traffic, or sift through the Snark. I even added a new category on Teaching Shakespeare, because that’s how I roll.
So what can you expect from the next few months of Shakespeare Teacher? Well, I’m kind of curious about that myself. I expect I’ll continue to do the riddle, and have no plans to abandon the anagram. I even have a new feature planned, still in search of a title. The rest is a mystery waiting to be unravelled. I’m looking forward to our making that journey together.
So I have a Twitter account now. I haven’t really been Tweeting very much, but I could start, like, any minute now.
If you want to follow me, you can find me here.
“Follow me, the wise man said.
But he walked behind.”Leonard Cohen
“Teachers”
Now that the one-two punch of reCAPTCHA and Akismet have practically eliminated spam from my comments list, I feel safe adding a “Recent Comments” feature to the right-hand sidebar. This is something that I’ve been wanting to do for some time, since I really like how it has changed the experience of reading Duane’s blog for me. But without the spam-busters, it would have been impossible.
What this means for you, the reader, is that if you decide you’d like to comment on an older post, the rest of the Shakespeare Teacher community will be able to see it, and possibly continue the discussion. So feel free to weigh in on today’s Shakespeare or rank my list of sources by reliability or whatever old discussions you’d like to reinvigorate. Go ahead and give it a try!
Unfortunately, this will make it slightly harder to avoid spoilers for Thursday Morning Riddles and Conundrums, but I think the trade-off is worth it.
I have also created an e-mail address where you can contact me directly. It is “webmaster” at this domain name.
Shakespeare Teacher: Serving our customers since 2007.
The spam was getting way out of control, so I installed reCAPTCHA. Now, when you want to leave a comment on this blog, you will just need to type in a couple of words to prove you’re a real human. I apologize for any inconvenience.
Feel free to play around with it by leaving a comment in this post. This will also let me know that the thing is working, so thanks in advance.
Okay, I’m playing around with a new look for the site (finally!) and I wanted to get some reader input before committing to anything. I have a few specific questions for readers of this site:
It’s the age-old debate of form vs. function, but I have to say that the site looks a lot more like a ShakespeareTeacher.com than the old style, which looked more like SomeGuysWebsiteIDontCareAbout.org.* Also, I like that there’s a calendar, which I haven’t had before.
Anyway, let’s try this out for a while and see how it goes.
*SomeGuysWebsiteIDontCareAbout.com was taken.
This is my first blog entry. Today is the first day of a new year, a day when we can imagine the future and all of its possibilities stretched out before us. Starting a new blog is kind of like that. Thanks for reading this, and maybe I’ll be back.