Shakespeare for All? Some Reflections on the Globe Theatre's Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank Project. Issue 2 (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yandell, John; Coles, Jane; Bryer, Theo
• Is Part Of: Changing English. Volume 27:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 208
• Page End: 228
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Shakespeare -- Globe -- rehearsal room -- performance -- audience -- interpretation; English literature -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; English language -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 410
• DOI: 10.1080/1358684X.2019.1620594
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1358-684X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Every year since 2007, the Globe Theatre has run the Playing Shakespeare project, largely funded by Deutsche Bank. This has three main components: school-based workshops, CPD sessions for teachers and free performances for school students. From 2014 to 2016, we were commissioned to evaluate this project. In what follows, we reflect on the nature of this project and its relation to the versions of Shakespeare that figure so prominently in the terrain of contemporary schooling in England.