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HEAR YE! HEAR YE! 📜 Let it be known that episode 8 of "Better Know Cincy's Arts," featuring the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, has arrived! In this episode, we chat with Candice Handy, Director of Education, about the importance of arts education for students in the region. Check it out below! #CincyArts #betterknowcincysarts

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Molière Molière, whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in world literature. Throughout his life, he faced numerous challenges and opposition in his pursuit of becoming a successful playwright and actor, making this quote a reflection of his own experiences and beliefs.   In the 17th century, theater in France was tightly regulated, and Molière's plays often faced criticism and censorship from the authorities. Despite the obstacles, he persisted in challenging the norms and producing thought-provoking, satirical, and witty plays that critiqued societal issues of the time. His most famous works, such as "Tartuffe" and "The Misanthrope," are still celebrated for their humor and sharp social commentary.   Molière's quote not only captures his personal determination but also speaks to the universal human experience of overcoming adversity. It highlights the idea that achieving greatness is not simply about avoiding obstacles but rather about embracing challenges and persevering through them. Molière's legacy as a playwright and his enduring impact on the world of theater demonstrate the truth of his own words, as he continues to be celebrated for his ability to find glory in overcoming the hurdles he encountered in his creative journey. #challenges #embracingchallenges #overcomingadversity #embracingchange #embracinguncertainty #embracingthejourney #projectmanagement

‼️In each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students, written by someone who has directed it themselves. Here, Rebecca Thompson introduces Dario Fo's absurdist text ⬇️

💥In each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students, written by someone who has directed it themselves. Here, Rebecca Thompson introduces Dario Fo's absurdist text⬇️

🎉In each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students, written by someone who has directed it themselves. Here, Rebecca Thompson introduces Dario Fo's absurdist text⬇️

🔎 Dive into a Discerner's comprehensive comparison of William Shakespeare's Henry V Act 1 to other Shakespeare works. Explore line by line comparisons and enrich your understanding today! #ShakespeareMeetsAI #Discerner 📚🤖

💭In each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students, written by someone who has directed it themselves. Here, Rebecca Thompson introduces Dario Fo's absurdist text⬇️

Check out this list of Shakespeare puns: https://buff.ly/3rCZsHq and submit your own in the comments!

Austin Tichenor has a good, brief article on Shakespeare's repurposing of sources. He writes: "Charlotte Artese, author of Shakespeare and the Folktale, explained on the Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimitedpodcast that Shakespeare frequently refers to things that have little meaning to us now but would have been familiar to his audience then. Among her many examples, Artese cites Ophelia’s odd-seeming non-sequitur “They say the owl is a baker’s daughter” from her mad scene in Hamlet as referring to a folktale in which Jesus turns a baker’s daughter into an owl for giving him a meager portion of bread..." And as I've argued before, the tale of the baker's daughter changed to an owl might best be considered as a repurposing/transformation of the gospel tale about the rich man and the beggar Lazarus - which is referred to by the ghost regarding his "lazar-like" skin after poisoning - and also referred to by Horatio in 5.2 as a paraphrase from the requiem Mass about Lazarus welcomed into heaven: "flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” So Shakespeare transforms and repurposes sources that had already represented transformations of earlier sources. In Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus speaks of a similar repurposing: "And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." Tichenor begins with the example of Ovid's Metamorphoses: It was only within the last two years that I realized Gertrude drinking from the cup poisoned by Hamlet's uncle/stepfather might be a transformation from the Metamorphoses of King Aegeus knocking from the hand of his son the cup that had been poisoned by his stepmother, Medea. There are many commonly cited allusions in Shakespeare, but perhaps others still remaining to be noticed... #Shakespeare #drama #literature #theater #repurpose #transform

Smart and insightful interview, thanks Jack Gilligan.