A unique project exploring creative approaches to the theory & practice of teaching & learning Shakespeare. Creators of #ShaxRedrawn and other activities.
We are delighted to share an exciting new resource on the Shakespeare Reloaded website: Prof Gretchen Minton's ecological adaptation of #TwelfthNight - #SaltWavesFresh! Check out a video, production pics, teaching activities & scenes! shakespearereloaded.edu.au/e…
ALT Kirsten Daniels as Feste and John Hosking as Toby from Montana InSite Theatre in a scene from Salt Waves Fresh.
Huge congratulations to Coen Heijes on Transdisciplinary Shakespeare Pedagogy! If you are wondering about collaboratively teaching Shakespeare across institutional units, faculties and disciplines, this is the Element for you!
Currently free to download.
doi.org/10.1017/978100956426…
Get your 'Shakespeare in Spirit'.
(ANZSA Conference 2025)
2-4 July 2025, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Paper proposals due: 20 March.
Full details:
conference.anzsa.org/
Very excited to announce the publication of Laura Seymour's wonderful 'Shakespeare and Neurodiversity'. Grab a copy while it is free (until 10 Feb)!! cambridge.org/core/elements/…
See the new special issue of Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (71.1): 'Framing the Work of Literature.' The articles explore innovative strategies and enduring value in literature reading and teaching.
tandfonline.com/toc/yjli20/7…
How over-systematisation destroys teachers and education. And how subject English fights back.
Open access 'SysEd and English' article out now.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
ALT Chart of 6 system traits from Semler, 'SysEd and English: The Work of Literature in an Over-Systematised Enlightenment', JLLC (2024) open access.
I have been reviewing the Everything to Everybody Project, which shared Birmingham's democratic Shakespeare heritage with the people of the City. We did this last year & I was moved & proud of the team, our patron & our partners to revisit it.
Teaching Shakespeare's Sonnets and Taylor Swift's Midnights: long awaited article imminent! Thanks to everyone at AJEE.
ALT Contents page of Australian Journal of English Education listing Semler's crazy article connecting Swift's Midnights to Shakespeare's Sonnets. You've been warned.
This is the first one-volume Complete Works of Shakespeare to be published in Serbian. A copy was presented to the late Queen Elizabeth, another to King Charles; now I have been commissioned to take this one back as a gift to @ShakesInstitute.
Palmer's Farm by moonlight, adjacent to Mary Arden Shakespeare's mother's family home, in Wilmcote. One of those places & moments where historical time hangs in the air & you feel you could reach out & touch it.
This was so much fun to record! An absolutely fascinating special guest episode - and spoiler: there may even be a little impromptu King Lear performance
Listen to "Hearts and King Lear in Critical Care" by Heart Of The Matter - A Health Humanities Podcast podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s… With my wonderful colleagues, @claireghansen and Michael Stevens, we chat to the fantastic Prof Fraser,
Watch the amazing Kylie Bracknell giving the Shakespeare Memorial Lecture 2024 @Sydney_Uni@CreateSydney "Journey to Hecate: Macbeth in Noongar" (incl Sonnet 146 in Noongar)
youtu.be/ynb6yjJQA9Y
And see her and Clint Bracknell's epochal book "Shakespeare on the Noongar stage"
Here's the link to the book: upswellpublishing.com/produc…
Honestly, it's breathtaking (so many 'firsts'): includes Introduction charting the whole process of developing Hecate in Noongar, a Noongar grammar and glossary, rehearsal and production pics, 7 Shakespeare Sonnets in Noongar.
Liam Semler speaking on Taylor Swift's Midnights and Shakespeare's Sonnets at the Bell National Teacher Conference on 10 Aug 2024. bellshakespeare.com.au/natio…