{"id":208,"date":"2007-05-19T06:23:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/208"},"modified":"2017-08-14T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:02:59","slug":"2007-national-shakespeare-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/208","title":{"rendered":"2007 National Shakespeare Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearemag.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">News on the Rialto<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The results are in for the 2007 National Shakespeare Competition for high-school students:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>16,000 students and 2,000 teachers from across the United States participated in a curriculum-based program designed to help high school students develop their communications skills and appreciation of language and literature, through the study, interpretation and performance of Shakespeare&#8217;s monologues and sonnets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The winner was Adam Brown (17) from the Youth Performing Arts School in Kentucky. He performed Sonnet 130, a Shylock speech from <em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em>, and a cold reading of a Berowne speech from <em>Love&#8217;s Labour&#8217;s Lost<\/em>. And thanks to the magic of the Internet, we can watch his winning performance.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RicbRhj6lEU\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RicbRhj6lEU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can see videos and read interviews for all of the finalists at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newglobe.org\/nationalshakespearecompetition\/\" target=\"_blank\">the New Globe website<\/a>. Man, sometimes I love the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><!--d87789d125438b5f3d10a9d3477bc383--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via News on the Rialto: The results are in for the 2007 National Shakespeare Competition for high-school students: 16,000 students and 2,000 teachers from across the United States participated in a curriculum-based program designed to help high school students develop their communications skills and appreciation of language and literature, through the study, interpretation and performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,123,3,87,39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-merchant-of-venice","category-shakespeare","category-teaching-shakespeare","category-theatre","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}