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Michele Osherow

Resident Dramaturg. Folger Theatre: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello (2011), Cyrano, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VII, Hamlet, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Much Ado About Nothing, Arcadia, The Winter’s Tale, 1 Henry IV, Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Measure for Measure (dramaturg and actor). Regional: Quotidian Theatre Company: The Veil (actor), Afterplay (actor), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (actor), Captain Drew on Leave, Dublin Carol, The Carpetbagger’s Children, The Mollusc, Tomorrow (actor), The Seagull (actor), Valentine’s Day (actor), While We Have the Light (actor), Uncle Vanya (actor), A Little Trick (actor); Jewish Repertory Theatre: The Dybbuk (actor). Arden Theatre Company: The Chosen, As You Like It (actor), Love’s Labors[sic] (actor); Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Nathan the Wise: An 18th-century German counterpoint to Shakespeare’s Shylock
Nathan the Wise
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Nathan the Wise: An 18th-century German counterpoint to Shakespeare’s Shylock

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Michele Osherow
"Nathan the Wise" and "The Merchant of Venice" are very different works, though religious tension is a subject in each, as is the potential for love and loss, wealth and poverty, bloodshed and peace. But it is the character of the Jew featured in each text that most causes scholars to focus on the plays' differences.
Dramaturg's Notes: The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Dramaturg's Notes: The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Michele Osherow
Folger Resident Dramaturg Michele Osherow explores the history of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' the wit of its wives, and the far-out 1970s setting of Folger Theatre's production.
Dramaturg's Notes: Love's Labor's Lost
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Dramaturg's Notes: Love's Labor's Lost

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Michele Osherow
Folger Resident Dramaturg and UMBC Associate Professor of English Michele Osherow takes us inside Folger Theatre's unique production to explore why Shakespeare's romantic comedy is so perfectly suited to DC in the 1930s.
Dramaturg's Notes: Nell Gwynn
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Dramaturg's Notes: Nell Gwynn

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Michele Osherow
Folger Resident Dramaturg Michele Osherow guides us through the world of Restoration theater and introduces us to the remarkable Nell Gwynn.
Dramaturg's Notes: The Way of the World
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Dramaturg's Notes: The Way of the World

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Michele Osherow
Folger Dramaturg Michele Osherow offers her insights on Theresa Rebeck's new adaptation of Congreve's The Way of the World.
Sense & Sensibility Dramaturg's Notes
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Sense & Sensibility Dramaturg's Notes

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Michele Osherow

Folger Theatre’s Resident Dramaturg, Michele Osherow Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how.…one is intimate with him by instinct. -Jane Austen, Mansfield Park                                 …

Midsummer Dramaturg's Notes
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Midsummer Dramaturg's Notes

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Michele Osherow

Folger Dramaturg Michele Osherow. There’s a fascination with dreams in Shakespeare, though Midsummer is the only play to announce one in its title. What’s odd is that aside from Hermia’s unnerving vision in the forest, no dreams are dreamt. Instead,…

Pericles Dramaturg’s Notes
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Pericles Dramaturg’s Notes

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Michele Osherow

Folger Resident Dramaturg, Michele Osherow Pericles, Prince of Tyre is unusual among Shakespeare’s plays. The hero travels Odysseus-like from place to place on a fantastical quest to showcase honor, announce virtue, and dodge the fury of a perverse king. Pericles…

Dramaturg's Notes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Dramaturg's Notes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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Michele Osherow

Folger Dramaturg Michele Osherow. Michele Osherow is the Folger Theatre’s Resident Dramaturg and has worked on over twenty productions here. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her notes on the Folger’s production of…