EN320: Staging Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

"Staging Shakespeare and His Contemporaries" spent a week in March 2008 in residence at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, VA, seeing 5 plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries: Macbeth and Cymbeline, Ben Jonson's Volpone, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, and Thomas Middleton's The Witch. The class, taught by Professor Genny Love, also participated in workshops, lectures, tours, and rehearsal observations.

(Left) The class outside the theatre with actor James Keegan. The students are, from left to right, Charlie Stewart, Emily Silver, Greta Murphy, James Eichner, Jocelyn Jenks, and Michael Barlow.