Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose - A Student-Centred Approach

What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare means teaching everything, or teaching "Western Civilisation" and universal themes. Instead, this invigorating new book equips teachers to enable student-centred discovery of these complex texts. Because Shakespeare''s plays are excellent vehicles for many topics -history, socio-cultural norms and mores, vocabulary, rhetoric, literary tropes and terminology, performance history, performance strategies - it is tempting to teach his plays as though they are good for teaching everything. This lens-free approach, however, often centres the classroom on the teacher as the expert and renders Shakespeare''s plays as fixed, determined, and dead. shows teachers how to approach Shakespeare''s works as vehicles for collaborative exploration, to develop intentional frames for discovery, and to release the texts from over-determined interpretations. In other words, this book presents how to teach Shakespeare''s plays as living, breathing, and evolving texts.>

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• Authors: Ayanna Thompson, Ayanna (The George Washington University Thompson, Ayanna Turchi Thompson, Professor Ayanna (Arizona State Universi Thompson, Professor Ayanna (Arizona State University Thompson, Laura Turchi, Laura (University of Houston Turchi, Turchi Laura
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9781472599612
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-9961-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Art, music; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Performing Arts / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Educational: English Literature, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Drama & performing (Children's / Teenage), Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean