There\u2019s nothing quite like hearing the Bard\u2019s words projected from a stage, hundreds of years ebbing away as they swirl around you. Plenty have studied William Shakespeare\u2019s plays over the centuries, but it\u2019s only in performance that they truly come to life\u2014even if those doing the acting are your own classmates.<\/p>\n
On a recent visit to our archives, Andy Costello, a photography manager at BU, unearthed this March 1987 photograph of an English class studying Shakespeare with James Siemon<\/a>. What you can\u2019t see, just off camera and under the (sometimes distracted) gaze of their classmates, are one or two students reading from a play. A professor of English, Siemon has taught at CAS since 1977 and is the editor of the peer-reviewed Shakespeare Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n Although the small brown envelope containing the original negatives says the photo shoot happened at the Boston Playwrights Theatre for a news article, it\u2019s scant on other information. That\u2019s where we need your help. What can you tell us about this photo? Is that you deep in thought, chatting with a friend, or readying a piercing question\u2014or acting tip? If you studied with Siemon, what are your memories of his classes?<\/p>\n