{"id":4046,"date":"2017-04-04T23:15:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/?p=4046\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:46:38","slug":"fsa-hosts-dr-ralph-alan-cohen-in-buenos-aires-at-the-national-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/fsa-hosts-dr-ralph-alan-cohen-in-buenos-aires-at-the-national-library\/","title":{"rendered":"FSA hosted Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen in Buenos Aires at the National Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p>Celebrating Shakespeare\u00b4s Birthday in 2017, FSA is honored\u00a0to have hosted Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen at the National Library on <strong>Monday April 24th at 7 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bn.gov.ar\/agenda-cultural\/blackfriars-el-teatro-mas-exitoso-de-shakespeare\">https:\/\/www.bn.gov.ar\/agenda-cultural\/blackfriars-el-teatro-mas-exitoso-de-shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cohen lectured\u00a0on\u00a0<em><strong>The<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Blackfriars Playhouse, Shakespeare\u00b4s most successful\u00a0Theatre<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4082\" src=\"http:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-BN-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-BN-1-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-BN-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-BN-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-BN-1-1-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FSA present&amp;oacute; al Prof Ralph Alan Cohen Co-fundador y Director del American Shakespeare Center en la Biblioteca Nacional Argentina\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/215343496?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4078\" src=\"http:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-en-la-Bn-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-en-la-Bn-5.jpg 960w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-en-la-Bn-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ralph-en-la-Bn-5-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FSA thanks Dr. Cohen for a wonderful and unforgettable evening together\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0cheerful audience that joined us at the &#8220;Jorge Luis Borges Auditorium&#8221; of the Biblioteca Nacional.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4093\" src=\"http:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RAC-BN-p\u00fablico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RAC-BN-p\u00fablico.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RAC-BN-p\u00fablico-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RAC-BN-p\u00fablico-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RAC-BN-p\u00fablico-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Listen the brilliant interview\u00a0of Ray Day to\u00a0Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen at\u00a0the\u00a0radio show &#8220;The Typical Mistake&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ray Day Interviews Prof Ralph Alan Cohen on the radio show The Typical Mistake by F ShakespeareArgentina\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F320395215&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1200&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Alan Cohen is Co-Founding Executive Director at the American Shakespeare Center and Gonder Professor of Shakespeare at Mary Baldwin University, where he founded the graduate program in<em> Shakespeare and Performance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He was project director for the building of the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton Virginia, which, since its completion in 2001, has staged more productions of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries than any professional theatre in the world. He has himself directed 35 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including America\u2019s first professional production of Francis Beaumont\u2019s The Knight of the Burning Pestle and the revival of Thomas Middleton\u2019s Your Five Gallants, which he also edited for The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton.<\/p>\n<p>He has twice edited special teaching issues of the Shakespeare Quarterly and has published articles on teaching Shakespeare as well as on Shakespeare, Jonson, and Elizabethan staging. He is the author of ShakesFear and How to Cure It: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare, a book he is currently expanding for Arden Shakespeare Press.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4020\" src=\"http:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ShakesFear1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1530\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ShakesFear1.jpeg 1530w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ShakesFear1-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ShakesFear1-768x1028.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ShakesFear1-765x1024.jpeg 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1530px) 100vw, 1530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4026\" src=\"http:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shakes-Fear-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1530\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shakes-Fear-2.jpg 1530w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shakes-Fear-2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shakes-Fear-2-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Shakes-Fear-2-765x1024.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1530px) 100vw, 1530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While at James Madison University, he founded the studies abroad program with semesters in London, Paris, Florence, and Salamanca. During his time at James Madison, he was named both the university\u2019s teacher of the year and its scholar of the year. In 1985 James Madison invited him to give its commencement address, and in 1987 the Commonwealth of Virginia\u2019s honored him with its newly established award for outstanding faculty.<\/p>\n<p>At the American Shakespeare Center he has directed four NEH Summer Institutes for university faculty on the subject of using performance to teach Shakespeare. Since 1992 he has given dozens of seminars on that subject for high school teachers of Shakespeare from all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>After the playhouse opened in 2001, he established the Blackfriars Conference, a bi-annual weeklong celebration of early modern drama in performance. In 2008 he won the Commonwealth Governor\u2019s Arts Award.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 he was the Theo Crosby Fellow at Shakespeare\u2019s Globe in London, where he is on the Architectural Review Group.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 he received the Folger Shakespeare Library\u2019s Shakespeare Steward Award for outstanding contribution to the innovative teaching of Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 he was the first American to receive the Globe\u2019s Sam Wanamaker Award for pioneering work in Shakespearean theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0the American Shakespeare Center\u00b4s\u00a0Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanshakespearecenter.com\/pages\/105\/0\/shakespeares-american-home\">http:\/\/www.americanshakespearecenter.com\/pages\/105\/0\/shakespeares-american-home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating Shakespeare\u00b4s Birthday in 2017, FSA is honored\u00a0to have hosted Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen at the National Library on Monday April 24th at 7 pm See link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.bn.gov.ar\/agenda-cultural\/blackfriars-el-teatro-mas-exitoso-de-shakespeare Dr. Cohen lectured\u00a0on\u00a0The\u00a0Blackfriars Playhouse, Shakespeare\u00b4s most successful\u00a0Theatre Watch the video: FSA thanks Dr. Cohen for a wonderful and unforgettable evening together\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0cheerful audience that joined us at the &#8220;Jorge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,233,249],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-activities","8":"category-news","9":"category-recent-activities-en"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Foto-del-Dr.-Ralph-Alan-Cohen-.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6elWy-13g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6431,"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/6431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespeareargentina.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}