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How and Why We Teach Shakespeare: College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students

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In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare. The collection is divided into four sections: studying the text as a script for performance; exploring Shakespeare by performing; implementing specific techniques for getting into the plays; and working in different classrooms and settings.The contributors offer a rich variety of topics, including: working with cues in Shakespeare, such as line and mid-line endings that lead to questions of interpretationseeing Shakespeare’s stage directions and the Elizabethan playhouse itself as contributing to a play’s meaningusing the "gamified" learning model or cue-cards to get into the textthinking of the classroom as a rehearsalplaying the Friar to a student’s Juliet in a production of Romeo and Julietteaching Shakespeare to inner-city students or in a country torn by political and social upheavals.For fellow instructors of Shakespeare, the contributors address their own philosophies of teaching, the relation between scholarship and performance, and—perhaps most of all—why in this age the study of Shakespeare is so important.

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Call Number

792 HOW h

Publisher

: ., 2019

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781000004816

Classification

792

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Performing Arts
Performing Arts / Theater

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Editor: Sidney Homan

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umi

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https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/a8cec37f-f4bf-471e-9db6-55075aa3e193

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