Playing Shakespeare’s Rebels and Tyrants

Louis Fantasia is Artistic Associate of the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, and has served as Dean of the Faculty of the New York Film Academy, and President of Deep Springs College. He is the series editor of Playing Shakespeare's Characters (Peter Lang). His books include Instant Shakespeare; Tragedy in the Age of Oprah; and Talking Shakespeare: Notes from a Journey (Peter Lang). In 2003, the Council of Europe named the theatre collection at its library in the European Parliament in honor of Louis Fantasia, who holds both U.S. and European Union passports. In 2016 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) for his contributions to German culture and theatre.

Louis Fantasia: Introduct ion: “’Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.” – Mira Furlan: A Letter to My Co- Citizens – Rebecca Lemon: Here or There: Staging Tyranny in Richard III – Mary Samuelson: Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and American Political Theater in the 1930s: The Case for Intermediality – Baron Kelly: Earle Hyman: The Silent Prophet of Protest – Ann M. Shanahan: “A visor for a visor”: Two Approaches to Staging Romeo and Juliet in a Divided Country – Olivia Buntaine: The Story of Cressida’s Body: The Rebellion of Survivorship in Troilus and Cressida (and Our Responsibility in Storytelling – Charles Duff: “In Boy, go first. You houseless povertie …” Social Justice and Transformation in King Lear – Suraya Keating & Lesley Schisgall Currier: Shakespeare in Blue: The Evolution of Marin Shakespeare Shakespeare in Prison Program – Joyce Halsey: “I know you what you are”: A Quiet Rebellion.