a in her funny pseudo-masculine hat. The playhas somehow become ours. Even if we hadn t put on the play, though, andfelt none of it for ourselves, reading about the rude mechanicals andtheir creative process gives a reader valuable insight. Shakespeare didnot just hand down to us a script, expecting the layman to figure outhow to make it happen. Instead, it is as if he included his own littleinstruction manual in the play, teaching all who will learn to bring itfrom the mere green text to the ripe fruit of performance. Personal NotesThe class in retrospect was a very good experience. Before thequarter began, when I first learned that our class would be taking afield trip together, I was hesitant. I wasn't sure that I wanted tospend a weekend away from home, in !a cabin in the hills with myShakespeare class. I was not convinced that it would be more than anuncomfortable experience. I didn't at all expect what actually came outof it, something that I praise God so much for, which had virtuallynothing to do with Shakespeare at all. The contact that I had with mygroup has become invaluable to me this quarter. I got to know peoplethat weekend that I otherwise would hardly have talked to had I not beenrequired to spend so much time outside of class with them. Tricia,Giselle, Matt and I are good friends; how could we be otherwise when werehearsed together so often, rode 8 hours in the car together, leftMatt's clothes behind, shopped the sales together at Macy's, ate meals,and hiked 20 minutes into the forest together? I learned about threepeople who share my faith, shared a candy bar with Joel, and did myclassmates' dishes. I saw them from morning to evening in lights andplaces so different from the norm. They seem to me pe!ople now, andfriends, not just bodies with mouths in chairs.par Besides beingpurely social, going to Swanton Ranch really opened up my educationalexperience. Although our actual film isn't going to win any AcademyAwards, ...
