ShakesFear and how to Cure it: A Handbook for Teaching ShakespeareThis book is the new definitive guide to teaching students to love Shakespeare. ShakesFear proceeds from a very simple premise: William Shakespeare's plays were written for audiences to enjoy and not for readers to trudge through. Noted Shakespeare scholar Ralph Cohen's life is devoted to the notion that only through performance does the depth and complexity of Shakespeare's world comes to life. In this book, Dr. Cohen walks teachers through the process of making Shakespeare fun in the classroom by staging scenes and plays. He uses tricks and "ploys," arguments, and hypothetical questions to tease students into falling in love with the characters first, then the plays, and eventually the literature. - Publisher. |
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PART | vi |
The Shakespeare Teachers Seven Deadly Preconceptions | 29 |
Ten DONTs of Teaching Shakespeare | 51 |
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Act Three actor playing Alternative Readings Antipholus Antony and Cleopatra Ask your students assignment audience Bassanio Beatrice Benedick Berowne Brutus Caesar characters choices choose Claudio Comedy of Errors comic death discussion Dromio Duke Elizabethan enjoy example exercise Falstaff father feel film Fool ghosts give Hamlet hear Henry idea insult joke Julius Caesar Kate kill King Lear Lady lines look Love's Labor's Lost lovers Macbeth Macduff meaning Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream murder night Orlando Othello passage Petruchio play's playwright plot ploy poem Portia problem production question Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet Rosalind Scenes for Alternative second version sense sexual Shakespeare's language Shakespeare's plays Shrew Shylock sound speaking speech stage story stress suggest teacher teaching Shakespeare tell theatre things thou understand woman words young