Stream Professor Liam E. Semler's session at the 2024 Bell Shakespeare National Teacher Conference with the Teacher Membership.
Runtime: 61 mins
Looking for a fresh way to teach Shakespeare’s poetry? Turns out Tay Tay’s done the work for you. There’s an unexpected synergy between Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Taylor Swift’s album Midnights which you can harness in the classroom. In this presentation, the University of Sydney’s Professor Liam Semler will show what these two celebrity artists have in common and how they throw light (not shade) on each other. When Swift and Shakespeare meet at midnight big poetic concepts get real, close reading gets tuned, and metaphors and genres leap off the page.
