Playing Shakespeare’s Lovers

Louis Fantasia (M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts) is the director of the Los Angeles Shakespeare Institute, a joint project of the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library-UCLA. He has served as director of the Shakespeare teacher institute at the Huntington Library, director of the London Shakespeare Globe Centre's Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance Institute and president of Deep Springs College.

Louis Fantasia: Introduction: Playing Shakespeare’s Lovers: "I know thou wilt say ‘aye’…" – Ellen Geer: All the Loves of a Dream One Midsummer’s Night – Charles Duff: Bassanio, or How a Hustler Falls in Love – Cindy Gold: Gender Flipping Shrew: Remedy or Band Aid? – Susan Gayle Todd: Caliban in Love – Baron Kelly: Othello: In the Age of Black Lives Matter and DACA – Manon Spadaro/Members of the Chicago Youth Shakespeare Ensemble: Roundtable: Playing at Love in the Age of Tinder – Jonathan Litten: Jaques: Shadow and Serpent – Allison DeLauer: What’s Love Got to Do with It? (It’s Complicated) – Louis Fantasia: Speak Low—Shakespeare’s Language of Love – Contributors.