Ypsilanti mi to steward il11/24/2023 ![]() Performances of Garrick, Kean, Macready, Irving, Gielgud, and Scofieldunder the direction of King Lear in the Theatre: A Study of the play Through the He returned to the Institute at Stratford to begin work on the Ph.D. Hired by his alma mater, CMU, where he taught with many of his former professors. The completion of his MA as well as his accomplishments as a high school teacher led to his being He also presentedĪ full- scale production of Twelfth Nightfor the public. So successfully that the administration had it performed before the entire student body. Where, among his other accomplishments, he produced a classroom production of Act I of Hamlet Upon returning to Michigan, he accepted a position at Arthur Hill High School in Saginaw, Michigan as an English instructor, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans, and Paul Scofield visiting the great houses of Britain and living one full year inĪ sixteenth-century thatched cottage, where he tended the garden. That period, however, were attending the theatre, where he saw multiple performances of such greats as Laurence Olivier, His methods of production, and his approach to interpretation of a Shakespearean play - all of which are essential to our fullĪppreciation of Poels contribution to theatre practice in the twentieth century. This study clarified Poels use of his Elizabethan stage, Stage history of Shakespeares Measure for Measure,as it had been performed at the Memorial Theatre at Stratford. In 1959, under the supervision of Reg Hill, he completed his MA by writing a University of Birmingham, at Stratford-upon-Avon, 1954-1956, under the direction of The Ford Fellowship led to Jack studying at The Shakespeare Institute, Wills, his formerĬMU professor, who convinced him to get on the boat (for England) as soon as possible. High School teachers, particularly for his work with students in the theatre. Mary Mathison Wills were most influential.įrom 1951-1954, Jack taught at Reed City High School, before being awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship for He graduated fromĬentral Michigan University, 1951, with a Bachelor of Science Degree, majoring in biology with minors in history and English. In 1947, he graduated from Traverse City High School, where Miss Pagel (English) and Miss Kennedy, director ofĪrsenic and Old Lace, were his most influential teachers. Honor Rural Agricultural School where Thelma Swiler and Miss Burke were his favorite and most influential teachers. He attended one-room schoolhouses until entering Was brought up at Lake Ann, Benzie County, Michigan. Jack Harris was born in Chicago, Illinois, March 6, 1929, to Arthur John and Lillian (OKeefe) Harris and He is best known as a Shakespeare scholar, a land conservator, and as an Jack Harris, of Lake Ann, Michigan and Ypsilanti, Michigan, died of an aortic aneurysm on April 3rd 2010 in Shakespearean Scholar and Historic Preservationist
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