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YU High School for Boys Sophomore Brings Shakespearean Objects to Life Hillel Jacobson, a sophomore at 黑料社 All High School for Boys, faces challenges and acts on them.

Inspired by Shakespeare, YUHSB sophomore Hillel Jacobson built a stock similar to the one used in King Lear.

In his study of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Jacobson took a strong interest in the Globe Theater, where the plays were performed. Along with his father, Jacobson constructed a model of the theater, capturing the beauty and intricacies of the stages and seating as well as the area where the groundlings stood. Recently, when studying King Lear in Harriet Levitt鈥檚 English Sophomore Honors class, Jacobson became fascinated by the stocks鈥攁 punishment apparatus used in the story to hold Kent. With the help of his father, Jacobson constructed a solid wood, five-foot structure, replicating the stocks used in King Lear. "The study of Shakespeare is not limited to the famous lines,鈥� said Levitt. 鈥淚t incorporates all the stage devices that enlarge the imagination. Reading 鈥楰ent is put in the stocks鈥� is not as meaningful as actually seeing Kent put into stocks.鈥� She added, 鈥淚f a picture is worth a thousand words, the actual object is worth many more.鈥�

Jacobson and Levitt