Pedagogy of Watching Shakespeare

This Element offers suggestions for how teachers might re-think the ways in which they present Shakespeare performed to their students particularly as a powerful way of building personal and critical responses to the plays.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Identity and watching the national theatre's schools Macbeth directed by Justin Audibert (2017); 3. For some must watch, while some must sleep: awakening students' critical voices using Gregory Doran's Hamlet (2009); 4. Conclusion.

Summary

This Element offers suggestions for how teachers might re-think the ways in which they present Shakespeare performed to their students particularly as a powerful way of building personal and critical responses to the plays.

Foreword

This Element explains how watching Shakespeare plays helps teachers and students perceive and interpret Shakespeare differently.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Dixie, Myfanwy Edwards, Bethan Marshall, Bethan (King''s College London) Edwards Marshall, Marshall Bethan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9781009114974
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0911497-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Theatre Studies, Teaching skills and techniques, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean