The Folger Shakespeare Library, the nation's most important center for Shakespeare study and scholarship, is also the center for Shakespeare education. At the Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute, scholars, actors, and teachers from across the country work together at the sometimes tricky business of teaching and learning Shakespeare. This first volume of the Shakespeare Set Free series is written by institute faculty and participants and resonates with fine recent scholarship; the energy created by teaching and learning Shakespeare actively; and the experience, wisdom, and wit of real classroom teachers in all kinds of schools and colleges all over the United States. In this book, you'll find the following: * Clear, lucid essays written by leading scholars to refresh the teacher and challenge older students * Michael Tolaydo's brilliant and plainly understandable technique for classroom teaching through performance * Ways to teach Shakespeare that successfully and energetically immerse students of every grade and ability level in the language and the plays themselves * Day-by-day teaching strategies for Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream-created, taught, written, and edited by real teachers.