Shakespeare

Dr Egan

What Does Shakespeare Require of You?

At Clapham School, every single middle school student is guaranteed to have a significant experience with Shakespeare through spending each spring semester studying and performing a Shakespeare play. As a classical school, Shakespeare is naturally part of our curriculum, but why? How does the Great Books canon serve our students, and in what way do they support and engage with a biblical worldview (stay tuned for even more on this in a future episode)? How can parents serve their students as they approach the formidable task of memorizing and performing lines in front of a live audience? Leah Becker and Hannah Bramsen discuss all this and more in this episode of the Clapham School Podcast.

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The Play - Clapham Christian School - Wheaton, IL

Why Shakespeare?

By Hannah Bramsen Upper School Humanities, Class 8 Homeroom, and Middle School Shakespeare Director   As spring slowly approaches, and students begin to feel the

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Introducing Shakespeare

By Kat van Elswyk, Intern Shakespeare plagiarized. For many of his plays, he took other people’s stories and words, tweaked a few things, added iambic

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