Josina Reaves is an English teacher in New York City with over fifteen years of experience. She has taught grades eight through twelve and specializes in Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century English novels, and American Lit.
The Bodleian Library to Digitize Their Shakespeare First Folio
2 August 2012
Oxford University’s Bodleian Library is known for its exacting standards of behavior and its difficult admission process (you have to sit through a lecture on the library’s history...
The Humanity in a Monster’s Eyes: Ron Cephas Jones Brings Richard III to the Public
30 July 2012
Before the Olympics opened and began their fortnight of filling London with the best and brightest athletic stars, London held what they called the Cultural Olympiad. The events started...
Wondering About Those Isles: Why Shakespeare Is Bad For The Olympics
28 July 2012
In the early part of Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, actor Kenneth Branagh read Caliban’s speech from Act 3, scene 2, of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It goes...