Summer Schools

Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance
Shakespeare Lives!

Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance

Every summer, 25 teachers from across the USA spend three weeks at Shakespeare's Globe. During their time here the teachers work on the following projects:

Teaching strategies for the contemporary classroom

Teachers work with Globe Education staff and practitioners to explore practical, active approaches to the teaching of Shakespeare. As the course progresses, teachers reflect on their process and discoveries and consider how their learning at the Globe might inform classroom practice.

Creating a production for the Globe Theatre

Teachers are immersed in the life of a working theatre. As well as attending three of the Globe's productions, teachers meet and work with members of the Globe Theatre Company responsible for design, direction, movement, music, text and voice to explore how productions at the Globe are conceived and mounted.

Producing a scene for the Globe stage

Teachers work in groups with directors on particular scenes from the Globe repertory and will present them on the Globe Theatre stage.

Teachers are selected by the English Speaking Union.

For further information please contact

International Programs
The English Speaking Union of the United States
144 East 39th Street
New York, NY 10016

Tel: (212) 818 1200

Shakespeare Lives!

With North Carolina School for the Arts, North Carolina
And with the Kenan Center and Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Buffalo, New York

Established in 1998, Shakespeare Lives! programmes are for teachers looking to develop their approaches to teaching Shakespeare.

Teachers engage in the programme for a year through a mixture of in-state workshops led by Globe Education Practitioners and local staff, distance learning initiatives and a two week intensive summer course at Shakespeare’s Globe. The year culminates with a US festival including a performance of a Shakespeare play presented in 12 'chapters' by the teachers’ students.

For further details, please contact courses@shakespearesglobe.com

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