ESP Biography



CHELSEA LINK, Harvard sophomore studying Human Evolutionary Bio.




Major: Human Evolutionary Biology

College/Employer: Harvard College

Year of Graduation: Not available.

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I have loved Shakespeare ever since my mother first started taking me to see plays at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre when I was in elementary school. I've read all of his sonnets and nearly all of his plays, and I've seen multiple performances of most of them. I taught Shakespeare classes for three years in high school, and directed three full-length plays (The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) and three scene recitals (two of which were performed in my backyard, using foliage as scenery). I look forward to sharing the Bard's work with more eager teenagers!



Past Classes

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H3128: Shakespeare for Groundlings, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bard in HSSP Harvard HSSP Spring 2010 (Feb. 06, 2010)
Think 400-year-old literature is outdated? Think again. In this class, we will explore several of Shakespeare's plays, in addition to learning about his life and times, to figure out why his work has never gone out of style. How could one man's writing appeal to everyone from royalty to peasants, from counts to carpenters, from professors to plebeians, from the 16th century to the 21st? Join us to find out! (Hint: half of Shakespeare's writing is actually just thinly veiled "that's what she said" jokes in iambic pentameter.)