Tag: James Alsop

• Shakespeare, Schools, and Student Wellbeing: the “Shake-in-a-Day” Project

  

  In this paper I discuss the ways in which Shakespearean performance can be used to promote student wellbeing in education. Originally presented at the BritGrad conference, June 2018.

  James Alsop

  Aug 1, 2018

  Shakespeare + E-M Drama, Teaching and Education

  as you like it, Department for Education, Drama, Education, James Alsop, mental health, much ado about nothing, perfectionism, play’s the thing, Risk-taking, Shake-in-a-Day, Shakespeare, student resilience, teaching, university

• Teaching Shakespeare at Key Stage 4: Language, Structure, and Form

  

  I didn’t know it at the time, but this essay marked a beginning for me: it was the first stage of a process of reflection, trial-and-error, mistakes and successes – a process that continues to this day.

  James Alsop

  Jul 31, 2018

  Teaching and Education

  dale salwak, Department for Education, DfE, Drama, Education, english literature, fred hamel, gregory doran, James Alsop, KS4, Michael Boyd, rex gibson, roberta barker, schools, Shakespeare, susan spangler, teaching, teaching shakespeare

• “Funeral Baked Meats”: Cannibalism and Corpse Medicine in “Hamlet”

  

  In “Hamlet,” Shakespeare’s depiction of man-eating in forces his audience to confront their own unsavoury distinctions between “acceptable” and “unacceptable” forms of cannibalism…

  James Alsop

  Jul 29, 2018

  Literature Essays + Analysis, Shakespeare + E-M Drama

  baked meats, bakhtin, cannibalism, cannibals, Catholicism, colonialism, corpse medicine, funeral, Hamlet, James Alsop, louise noble, medical cannibalism, michel de montaigne, peggy sanday reeves, Philip Schwyzer, raymond rice, richard sugg, robert appelbaum, robert stam, stephen greenblatt, titus andronicus, william arens, william shakespeare, Zombies

• Shakespeare and the Living Dead

  

  A summary of my PhD thesis: featuring ghosts, gore, and a spooky review of Michael Boyd’s 2011 “Macbeth”…

  James Alsop

  Jul 28, 2018

  Literature Essays + Analysis, Shakespeare + E-M Drama

  Drama, Duchess of Malfi, Early Modern, Ghosts, Hamlet, James Alsop, John Webster, Julius Caesar, Living Death, Macbeth, Michael Boyd, Performance, Philip Schwyzer, Reformation, Shakespeare, Theatre, Witches, Zombies