According to an article titled "Dr. Bill? Retired physician says medical lingo betrays Shakespeare" in the March 12, 2012 issue of Ashland Daily Tidings, Shakespeare Fellowship President Earl Showerman will teach a class called "The Shakespeare Authorship Question" from May 8 through June 5 at Southern Oregon University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. For more information, visit www.sou.edu/olli/courses.shtml or call OLLI Coordinator Sally Klein at 541-552-6048.
James Wheaton reported yesterday in the Jackson Citizen Patriot that the Michigan Shakespeare Festival high school tour of Romeo and Juliet was criticized for inappropriate content -- " So me take issue with sexual innuendoes in Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s High School Tour performances of ‘Romeo & Juliet’" : Western [High School] parent Rosie Crowley said she was upset when she heard students laughing about sexual content in the play afterwards. Her son didn’t attend the performance Tuesday because of another commitment, she said. “I think the theater company should have left out any references that were rated R,” Crowley said. “I would say that I’ve read Shakespeare, and what I was told from the students, I’ve never read anything that bad.” She said she objected to scenes that involved pelvic thrusting and breast touching and to a line in which Mercutio makes suggestive comments to Romeo after looking up the skirt of a female. The problem with cutting out...