ESP Biography

Friends, Romans, SPLASH students, lend me your voices! I'd like you to join me in making fools of ourselves, as we prepare to knock out an entire Shakespeare play in 2 hours! Come if you love acting, english, or just have a soft spot for the venerable bard. We'll all gather round a table with copy of a play (and some snacks!), trade parts at the beginning of each scene, and dive right into love, death, passion, and downright silliness. Don't worry if you don't have experience with acting or familiarity with Shakespeare--I'll be providing brief plot summaries before we read each scene so that everyone is on the same page--the rest is left to your own creativity! This is your chance to let loose, read some of the greatest literature of all time, and, perchance, to dream. You may even pick up a few tips from the master! (For example: Next time someone insults you, you can call him "a knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; a one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.")