Shakespeare Magazine

Shakespeare Magazine was published by Georgetown University and Cambridge University Press from 1996 to 2003. I was the founder and editor-in-chief with Nancy Goodwin and later with Martha Harris. 

Below are a selection of articles from those issues. 

Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks By Mary Ellen Dakin
Shakespeare With Tears by Russ McDonald
The Dark Pleasures of Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night by Peter Holland
"All are punished": Studying Varying Loyalties in Julius Caesar By Carolyn P. Henly
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”:Looking at Lear’s Speeches by Melissa Borgmann
Playing King Lear by Michael LoMonico
The Opening of the Globe: an Interview with Mark Rylance
Killing Cinna the Poet in Your Own Classroom By Michael LoMonico
"Shakespeare in Love" reviewed by Stephanie Cowell
I Want My Shakespeare TV: Ten Feature-packed DVDs by Tanya Gough
Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream reviewed by Josh Cabat
10 Things, 2 Elements a review of "10 Things I hate About You" by Nancy Goodwin
Who is Hamlet? 
A Midsummer Night's Dream for End-of-the-term Teachers
Some Random Thoughts About Teaching Shakespeare by Michael LoMonico
 

Broadsheets

Each issue featured a one-page teaching strategy, many copy-ready. Below are some of the best:
Exit lines
Irony
Early Modern Marriage
Aaron, the Moor
80 Odd Words
Throwing Lines
Othello Word Frequency
Rhyme
 

Fiction

"Ophelia in the Garden" a poem by Carmelo Militano
"The Witness" a short story  by Ronald Morris
"Mom, Shakespeare and Me" a short five-act play by Clare Higgins
"Why I Won't Play Hamlet Ever Again"  a one-act play by Sandeep Bhatnagar

Technology

Shakespeare: Subject to Change

I worked on this interactive project with Peggy O'Brien when she was at Cable in the Classroom. It is a smart introduction to the printing and performing of Shakespeare's texts. Many of the images are from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Filmmaking

Film School

Film School is a teaching unit I designed and created for the Independent Film Channel. It is not intended for film study classes, but rather it is a way for English teachers to seamlessly integrate film and film making  into their current classes.  Some of the technology might seem dated, but the concepts are still sound and have been tested in my own classroom. 

IFC Unit 1 INTRO TO FILM IN THE CLASSROOM

IFC Unit 2 THE FILM LITERATURE CONNECTION

IFC Unit 3 WRITING AND LANGUAGE IN FILM

IFC Unit 4 CONVERTING LITERATURE TO FILM

IFC Unit 5 BEING A DIRECTOR

IFC Unit 6 SHOOTING YOUR FILM