Teaching Shakespeare  30834

  • Introduction
    • Active methods
    • Teaching Shakespeare: an overview
  1. Why teach Shakespeare?[rtoc]
    • Abiding and familiar concerns
    • Student development
    • Language
    • Otherness[/rtoc]
  2. Principles[rtoc]
    • Treat Shakespeare as a script
    • Make Shakespeare learner-centred
    • Shakespeare is social
    • Shakespeare celebrates imagination
    • Shakespeare is physical
    • Make Shakespeare exploratory
    • Address the distinctive qualities of the play
    • Choice and variety
    • Shakespeare celebrates plurality
    • Negative capability
    • Shakespeare is about enjoyment[/rtoc]
  3. Perspectives[rtoc]
    • Feminism
    • Psychoanalysis
    • Structuralism
    • Deconstruction
    • Political perspectives
    • Reception theory
    • Using perspectives[/rtoc]
  4. Shakespeare’s language[rtoc]
    • Introduction
    • Shakespeare’s schooling
    • Dramatic language
    • Imagery
    • Personification
    • Antithesis
    • Repetition
    • Rhyme
    • Lists
    • Verse
    • Prose
    • Rhetoric
    • Bombast
    • Hyperbole
    • Irony
    • Oxymoron
    • Puns
    • Malapropism
    • Monosyllables
    • Pronouns
    • Changing language
    • Inventing language
    • Everyday language
    • Two types of language
    • The development of Shakespeare’s language
    • The Sonnets[/rtoc]
  5. Story[rtoc]
    • The story of the play
    • Enacting the story
    • Stories in the play
    • Recapitulating the story
    • Point of view narratives
    • Ariel’s story[/rtoc]
  6. Character[rtoc]
    • Introduction
    • Fundamental questions
    • Complexity of character
    • Language and character
    • Introduction to activities
    • Cast the play
    • Job interviews
    • Absent characters
    • This is your life
    • Obituaries
    • Point of view
    • Hot-seating
    • Public and private
    • Props
    • Free-wheeling associations
    • List of characters
    • Ranking characters
    • Journeys through the play
    • Relationships
    • Exploring character
    • Character types
    • Character names[/rtoc]
  7. Themes[rtoc]
    • Introduction
    • Four common themes
    • Levels
    • Particular themes
    • Fathers and daughters
    • Acting and theatre[/rtoc]
  8. Dramatic effect[rtoc]
    • Introduction
    • Stage directions
    • Critical incidents
    • Creating atmosphere
    • Opening scenes[/rtoc]
  9. Active methods[rtoc]
    • Content
    • The teacher’s role
    • Organising the classroom
    • Introduction to activities
    • Acting a scene
    • Beginning the play
    • Sense units
    • Speaking Shakespeare
    • Teacher leading
    • Five investigations
    • Sections and headlines
    • Student as director
    • Point of view: theory
    • Improvisations
    • Warm-ups
    • A memory game
    • Tableaux
    • Choral speaking
    • Insults
    • Using videos
    • Trials and inquiries
    • Writing and design
    • Sequencing
    • Shakespeare’s life and times
    • Theatre visits
    • The annual Shakespeare play
    • Shakespeare festivals
    • Researching the classics
    • Other resources[/rtoc]
  10. Shakespeare for younger students[rtoc]
    • Introduction
    • Shakespeare’s life and times
    • Storytelling
    • Dramatic storytelling
    • A co-ordinated approach across the curriculum
    • A Shakespeare term
    • A puppet Macbeth[/rtoc]
  11. Assessment[rtoc]
    • Process or product?
    • Principles
    • Student self-assessment
    • Assessment of performance
    • Essays
    • Assessment tasks
    • Examinations
    • Evaluating a lesson[/rtoc]
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