During the 1995-96 academic year a group of sixteen college teachers participated in the the Folger Institute, "Shakespeare Examined Through Performance." This National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored, year-long humanities institute was directed by Alan Dessen (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill) and Audrey Stanley (University of California--Santa Cruz). It was organized by Lena Orlin (Executive Director of The Folger Institute at Washington D.C.'s Folger Shakespeare Library and now Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America). The institute met at the Folger Library one weekend each month for nine months. Text for the various pages on this site was written by members and leaders of the institute. The material on this website is only a small portion of the written work produced during the nine months of the institute. A substantial amount of additional work is a part of the official institute records made available to the institute's sponsors.

Our "Sister" Site at Holy Cross

The Interactive Shakespeare Project is primarily the work of 1995-96 institute members Ed Isser and Dan Colvin, with contributions from nine other institute members, the three institute directors, and several of the institute's visiting scholars. The project provides a complete study guide to Measure for Measure and the first web-based model of the Globe that uses virtual modeling language. Future plans include the production of additional study guides. Teachers, students, and fans of Shakespeare will find a rich variety of materials at the site.

Welcome to the 1995-96 Folger Institute on Shakespeare Examined through Performance

Read Lena Orlin's brief Preface to see what the institute was all about, and then read the Introductions by Audrey Stanley and Alan Dessen...

The Shakespeare Performance Recipe Book:

A compilation of teaching exercises, including both those we used or developed during the insitute and others that we have found useful in our teaching.

 

Institute Participants: Who we are and where we teach...

Photo Gallery:

This is our photo album: It may be boring to non-participants, but if you want to see what we look like....

Records of the Meetings:

We took notes, lots and lots of notes....

 

Plays Attended

We attended plays each session. They made us do it....

Individual and Group Projects

During the course of the institute members worked on individual or group projects. Here they are....

This web site is maintained by Tom Gandy, Professor of English at Texas A&M University--Texarkana, who is solely responsible for its content and who would appreciate being notified of errata. This site is not officially affiliated with the NEH or the Folger Institute, the two organizations which sponsored the 1995-96 Folger Institute on Shakespeare Examined Through Performance. At the last two sessions of the institute, the group expressed the desire to have many of the institute's files made available to the public via the worldwide web, and as part of my commitment to the institute I volunteered to produce and maintain this site. Text files of the institute members' work are also available from the Shakespeare Global Electronic Conference, SHAKSPER, as are files of the 1992-93 Folger/NEH institute, "Shakespeare and the Languages of Performance."

Please email suggestions, comments or corrections to: tom.gandy@tamut.edu.

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