April 22, 2010

My intro to Shakespeare

Although I knew about him prior to high school, my first REAL intro was in a Shakespeare Class taught by Joann Eisenberg in Southfield Michigan in 1972, I think. She would play records of the plays as we followed along with the text. She would be laughing SO hard, she would literally be falling on the floor in hysterics, and then stop the record to explain through her gasping laughter, that he was really talking about sex. My daughter also loves Shakespeare, and our favorite movie is Tom Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which is so brilliant a use of Hamlet. Nancy C.