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A Shakespearean Halloween
10/31/05

This Halloween at Princeton Latin Academy, a grammar school in Hopewell, NJ, students followed up their annual costume parade with literary skits adapted from Shakespeare plays. Ordinarily the theme of the Halloween skits is simply spooky, but it occurred to the students that there is plenty of blood, gore, ghosts, witches, enchantments and murders in Shakespeare. As such, a decision was made to dedicate this Halloween to the greatest English writer of all time.

The adaptations included Macbeth, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the scene of Julius Caesar’s murder and a re-enactment of the masked ball from Romeo and Juliet.

6th-grader Peter Sendzik of New Hope, PA, posing as Julius Caesar surrounded by murderous conspirators.

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