Actors performing Hamlet in the old theater barn in Winedale, Texas, 1993. Shakespeare at Winedale is an intense, all-immersing 17-week course. Each May, after eight weeks of distance study, 15 to 20 "students" converge at UT's Winedale Historical Center to begin the regimen of 18-hour days totally dedicated to The Bard. Photograph by Larry Murphy, Office of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin.