Educational Resources / Essays
Three short pieces on why this repertoire is worth teaching, written to be read in one sitting, by students and by the teachers who work with them.
Short enough to assign, solid enough to argue with.
What Gold?
Valerie Hegstrom
An empire that ruled the seas and shipped gold from the Americas, and was broke by the seventeenth century. What that contradiction did to its theater.
When Killing Is Not a Crime
La muerte del apetito read as if Apetito, Mortificación and Desnudez were people we already know, and the killing an act of virtue.
Why We Do Outreach
What a Golden Age play can give a heritage speaker who feels out of place in a classroom where only English is allowed.
Taking it further
Why We Do Outreach is the opening argument of the outreach program. The handbook, the session outline and the study guides are on the Outreach Guides page.
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