Download or read book Weaving the Text: The Lived Experience of High School Student Actors in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and What It Means to Their Teacher written by Jim Carpenter and published by James Hulbert. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Carpenter's 1994 dissertation, Weaving the Text, looks at his production of Hamlet from the previous year. Weaving the Text is the principal surviving document of his decades of collaboration and dialogue with his theatre students. It draws on pedagogical, hermeneutic, phenomenological, textual and acting theory -- but its focus is on the real-life experience of students and teacher.