Reply #5: I think you should study the theatrical design work of Robert Wilson

[Rabrrrrrr]

and then, instead of doing a short paper on just one character, design for the whole cast as well as the set.

What fun!!!!!

Unlike you, I had to do the papers on symbolism and etc., in a serious way. But even so, my prof was also totally cool and a hell of a lot of fun - in my school, the Shakespeare class was an elective, so people were in it because they wanted to be there, and the professor was far more into it than we was in the required History of Art and Literature class that EVERYONE had to take; and my school was only engineering, so that was a whole class of bored engineers, except a few of us, so I'm not surprised he wasn't all that excited about that one. But he really exploded on Shakespeare, and it was great - fantastic dialogue in class discussions, lots of cool ideas tossed around, and a lot of freedom.