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Teaching Will: What Shakespeare and 10 Kids Gave Me that Hollywood Couldn´t
Mel Ryane
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Description for Teaching Will: What Shakespeare and 10 Kids Gave Me that Hollywood Couldn´t
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: ASZD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
What happens when an idealist volunteers to introduce Shakespeare to a group of unruly kids? Bedlam. Tears. And hard lessons learned. Convinced that children can relate to Shakespeare's themes—power, revenge, love—Mel Ryane launches The Shakespeare Club at a public school. Teaching Will is a riotous cautionary tale of high hopes and goodwill crashing into the realities of classroom chaos.Every week Mel encounters unexpected comedy and drama as she and the children struggle toward staging a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Woven through this fish-out-of-water tale is Mel's own story of her childhood aspirations, her acting identity, and the heartbreaking ... Read more
What happens when an idealist volunteers to introduce Shakespeare to a group of unruly kids? Bedlam. Tears. And hard lessons learned. Convinced that children can relate to Shakespeare's themes—power, revenge, love—Mel Ryane launches The Shakespeare Club at a public school. Teaching Will is a riotous cautionary tale of high hopes and goodwill crashing into the realities of classroom chaos.Every week Mel encounters unexpected comedy and drama as she and the children struggle toward staging a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Woven through this fish-out-of-water tale is Mel's own story of her childhood aspirations, her acting identity, and the heartbreaking ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Familius LLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Sanger, CA, United States
ISBN
9781939629234
SKU
V9781939629234
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Mel Ryane
Following a distinguished career as a classically trained actor onstage and in film and television, Mel Ryane has found a new artistic home in the written word with her memoir, Teaching Will: What Shakespeare and 10 Kids Gave Me That Hollywood Couldn't. Mel became a professional actor during her teens in her native Canada, then followed her career to ... Read more
Reviews for Teaching Will: What Shakespeare and 10 Kids Gave Me that Hollywood Couldn´t
"A charming memoir that will amuse and inspire parents, teachers, and Shakespeare fans. Overall, a bravura performance." —Kirkus Reviews “In her lively memoir reaching back to moments in her own acting career, Ryane manages both to be funny and not take herself too seriously, though the respect she instilled in the children is remarkable: respect for her direction, for ... Read more