{"id":9140,"date":"2025-05-29T18:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9140"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:04:45","slug":"aditi-kapil-about-the-artist-31","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9140","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Rappaport: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"314\" data-id=\"9131\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Headshot-cropped.jpeg?resize=358%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9131\" 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here to <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=9129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">listen to his interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gideon Rappaport has a Ph.D. in English and American literature with specialization in Shakespeare. His book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/Appreciating-Shakespeare-Gideon-Rappaport\/dp\/B0BSMW72G2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Appreciating Shakespeare<\/a>&#8221; is now available, he podcasts at <a href=\"http:\/\/AppreciatingShakespeare.buzzsprout.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">AppreciatingShakespeare.buzzsprout.com<\/a>, and some of his lectures are on YouTube at \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLVt55QUfNLZbC4hX9bXAKCTmhj5G-zySn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Shakespeare\u2019s Real Take<\/a>.\u201d Gideon has taught Shakespeare, British Literature, and Humanities at Hamilton College, SUNY Cortland, Concordia University, and the University of New Hampshire, Rappaport has also served as theatrical dramaturge for professional theaters including the Old Globe Theatre, the California Shakespeare Festival, the British-American Youth Festival Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the North Coast Repertory Theatre, the Intrepid Theatre, the Moonlight, the Poor Players, the New Fortune Theatre Company, and the Coronado Community Theatre, and the San Diego Shakespeare Society. He has lectured on Shakespeare for continued learning programs at University of California at San Diego and University of San Diego, for the Honors Seminars of the San Diego City Schools, Friends of the Library in several cities, the San Diego Shakespeare Society, and conventions of the National Association of Independent Schools and the California Association of Independent Schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to listen to his interview. Gideon Rappaport has a Ph.D. in English and American literature with specialization in Shakespeare. His book &#8220;Appreciating Shakespeare&#8221; is now available, he podcasts at AppreciatingShakespeare.buzzsprout.com, and some of his lectures are on YouTube at \u201cShakespeare\u2019s Real Take.\u201d Gideon has taught Shakespeare, British Literature, and Humanities at Hamilton College,<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9140' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Click here to listen to his interview. 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