Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Author: Margaret Dupuis
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1603291733

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The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing arts, and in scholarship. The result is a volume that offers practical advice to teachers on editions and teaching resources in part 1, "Materials," while illuminating how the play's subtle and complex arguments regarding not just marriage but a host of other subjects--modes of early modern education, the uses of clever rhetoric, intergenerational and class politics, the power of theater--are being brought to life in college classrooms. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," are written by English and theater instructors who have taught in a variety of academic settings and cover topics including early modern homilies and music, Hollywood versions of The Taming of the Shrew, and student performances.

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's English History Plays

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's English History Plays
Author: Laurie Ellinghausen
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603293019

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Shakespeare's history plays make up nearly a third of his corpus and feature iconic characters like Falstaff, the young Prince Hal, and Richard III--as well as unforgettable scenes like the storming of Harfleur. But these plays also present challenges for teachers, who need to help students understand shifting dynastic feuds, manifold concepts of political power, and early modern ideas of the body politic, kingship, and nationhood. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," introduces instructors to the many editions of the plays, the wealth of contextual and critical writings available, and other resources. Part 2, "Approaches," contains essays on topics as various as masculinity and gender, using the plays in the composition classroom, and teaching the plays through Shakespeare's own sources, film, television, and the Web. The essays help instructors teach works that are poetically and emotionally rich as well as fascinating in how they depict Shakespeare's vision of his nation's past and present.

Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare

Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare
Author: Edward L. Rocklin
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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Describes a performance approach to teaching Shakespeare's plays in high school and college, using performance activities that include analyzing casting, rehearsing, and performing parts of plays.

Teaching Shakespeare

Teaching Shakespeare
Author: G. B. Shand
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-01-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 144430321X

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This contemplative anthology offers personal essays by notedscholars on a range of topics related to the teaching ofShakespeare. Ideal for the graduate student, it addresses many ofthe primary concerns and rewards of the discipline, drawing on thevariety of special skills, interests, and experiences brought tothe classroom by the volume's distinguished contributors. Offers insight into the classroom practices, special skills,interests, and experiences of some of the most distinguishedShakespearean scholars in the field Features essayists who reflect on the experience of teachingShakespeare at university level; how they approach the subject andwhy they think it is important to teach Provides anecdotal and practical advice for any readerinterested in teaching the works of Shakespeare Engagingly candid

Teaching Shakespeare Today

Teaching Shakespeare Today
Author: James E. Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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This teaching guide for high school college instructors begins with an introduction on "Shakespeare and the American Landscape," by Samuel Crowl, and includes the following 32 essays: "Some 'Basics' in Shakespearean Study" (Gladys V. Veidemanis); "Teaching Shakespeare's Dramatic Dialogue" (Sharon A. Beehler); "Shakespearean Role Models" (Ruth Ann Gerrard); "The Use of Quotations in Teaching Shakespeare" (Leila Christenbury); "Getting To Know a Play Five Ways" (Martha Tuck Rozett); "Toward a Teachable Shakespeare Syllabus" (Robert F. Willson, Jr.); "Shakespeare off the Page" (J. L. Styan); "Goals and Limits in Student Performance of Shakespeare" (Charles H. Frey); "Using Improvisational Exercises to Teach Shakespeare" (Annette Drew-Bear); "Enacting Shakespeare's Language in'Macbeth' and 'Romeo and Juliet'" (Elizabeth Oakes); "Sparking: A Methodology to Encourage Student Performance" (Joan Ozark Holmer); "Changing the W's in Shakespeare's Plays" (Michael Flachmann); "Love, Sighs, and Videotape: An Approach to Teaching Shakespeare's Comedies" (Michael J. Collins); "Shakespearean Festivals: The Popular Roots of Performance" (Demar C. Homan); "Introducing Shakespeare with First Folio Advertisements" (Daniel J. Pinti); "Versions of 'Henry V': Laurence Olivier vs. Kenneth Branagh" (Harry Brent); "Picturing Shakespeare: Using Film in the Classroom to Turn Text into Theater" (James Hirsh); "Shakespeare Enters the Electronic Age" (Roy Flannagan); "Shakespeare Is Not Just for Eggheads: An Interview with Two Successful Teachers" (Linda Johnson); "Teaching Shakespeare against the Grain" (Ronald Strickland); "Shakespeare and the At-Risk Student" (David B. Gleaves and others); "Decentering the Instructor in Large Classes" (Robert Carl Johnson); "Where There's a 'Will,' There's a Way!" (Mary T. Christel and Ann Legore Christiansen); "Digging into 'Julius Caesar through Character Analysis" (Larry R. Johannessen); "A Whole Language Approach to 'Romeo and Juliet'" (John Wilson Swope); "'Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care': Responding to 'Macbeth' through Metaphorical Character Journals" (Gregory L. Rubano and Phillip M. Anderson); "Building a Bridge to Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' with Cormier's 'The Chocolate War'" (Margo A. Figgins and Alan Smiley); "Three Writing Activities to Use with 'Macbeth'" (Ken Spurlock); "The Centrality of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'" (Hugh M. Richmond); "If Only One, Then 'Henry IV, Part 1' for the General Education Course" (Sherry Bevins Darrell); "Teaching 'The Taming of the Shrew': Kate, Closure, and Eighteenth-Century Editions" (Loreen L. Giese); and "'Measure for Measure': Links to Our Time" (John S. Simmons). (SAM)

Taming of the Shrew

Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1438092695

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Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text. These invaluable teaching-study guides also include: Helpful background information that puts each play in its historical perspective. Discussion questions that teachers can use to spark student class participation, and which students can use as springboards for their own themes and term papers. Fact quizzes, sample examinations, and other features that improve student comprehension of what each play is about.

Shakespeare in Three Steps

Shakespeare in Three Steps
Author: Sonya Shafer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2015-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781616342791

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How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 0307951499

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Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean theater and society.

The Woman's Part

The Woman's Part
Author: Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1980
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252010163

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Teaching Shakespeare

Teaching Shakespeare
Author: Walter Edens
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1400868173

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Here is a rich variety of approaches to teaching Shakespeare, described by authors who are distinguished teachers and scholars. In setting forth their classroom techniques they otter critical insights as well as stimulating ideas for use by other teachers. Their suggestions range from different pairings of plays, provocative questions for discussion, and ways of reading aloud, to projects for class performances and even possibilities for teaching Shakespeare outside the classroom. The contributors share a concern for developing students' interests and skills beyond strict formal analysis. Contributors: Walter F. Eggers, Jr., Robert B. Heilman, John W. Velz, D. Allen Carroll, Norman Rabkin, Winfried Schleiner, A. C. Hamilton, Albert Wertheim, Paul M. Cubeta, David M. Bergeron, Ray L. Heffner, Jr., Brian Vickers, Jay L. Halio, G. Wilson Knight, Bernard Beckerman. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.