Shakespeare in the Light

Amy R. Cohen is professor of classics and theatre at Randolph College. She is director of the Center for Ancient Drama and holds the William Erness Thoresen and Catherine Ehrman Thoresen ’23 Chair of Speech and Theatre.Paul Menzer is a professor and director of the Mary Baldwin University MLitt/MFA Shakespeare and Performance graduate program.

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• Introductions:Being Ralph Cohen Paul MenzerA Runaway American Dream: The Birth of the American Shakespeare Center Jim WarrenPart 1: In the LibraryActors as Evidence Alan ArmstrongThe Pressures of Immediacy: The Alchemist and Theatrical MagicEvelyn TribbleText as performance as text: the King’s disease in All’s Well that Ends WellJeremy LopezReading Lady Macbeth's Line, 3.4.117George Walton WilliamsBlackfriars Then and Now Tiffany SternTaking Our Hats Off to Ralph Andrew GurrFacts Don’t Always Do What We Want Them ToFarah Karim-CooperMacbeth and the Power of Poetry Russ McDonaldPart 2: In the ClassroomOthello: Three Notes for Dr Ralph to QueryPatrick Spottiswoode“What wouldst thou do now”: The Visionary Impact of Shakespeare on a Small College TownMary Hill Cole and Marlena HobsonRalph Alan Cohen’s Fearless Teaching: The Language of Shakespeare Sally SouthallPart 3: On the StageDionysus at Play with Antony and CleopatraAmy Cohen“Change Place