Kent Richmond at CSULB
Before his retirement in 2008, Kent Richmond, lecturer emeritus, taught composition, critical thinking, and linguistics for the English Department and American Language Program. He is interested in adult second language acquisition and the role that vocabulary learning plays in that process. His latest book Inside Reading 4 (Oxford University Press) won the 2008 David E. Eskey award from the California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL). He is the coauthor of Interface: Academic English in Context.
Kent spends his spare time writing verse translations of Shakespeare plays in contemporary English, so far completing translations of Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet was recently performed at a high school in Ohio. [more]
Shakespeare Translation Project
The Enjoy Shakespeare Series
King Lear
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo and Juliet
Twelfth Night
John McWhorter's article "The Real Shakespearean Tragedy" in the January 2010 issue of American Theater Magazine praises Kent Richmond's Shakespeare Translation Project.