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- The North Face of Shakespeare
$37.65
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- ISBN:9780521756365
- Format:Paperback
- Subject(s):Shakespeare
- Author(s):James Stredder
- Available from: September 2009
A wealth of expert advice and practical ideas for teaching the plays.
$37.65
Availability: Manufactured on demand: supplied direct from the printer
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CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Using this book
- The organisation and content of the eight chapters
- Developing the use of drama to teach Shakespeare
- The teacher's autonomy
- Section 1. Active Teaching: 1. Why use active methods to teach the plays? The North Face of Shakespeare
- The problem of monumentalism
- The teacher repositioned: 'Shakespeare shared'
- Starting active work
- Drama workshops
- The learner and the text at the centre
- Active Shakespeare and independent learning
- Back to the art of teaching - and student achievement
- 2. Practical work and drama workshops
- The classroom as stage: activities in conventional teaching sessions
- Safety: physical and emotional
- Different needs and abilities
- Workshop practices
- Workshop objectives and the use of warm-ups and preparation exercises
- Workshop planning: an example of a language workshop - 'Macbeth's soliloquies'
- The origins of the workshop activities in the following chapters
- Section 2. Activities for Teaching Shakespeare's Plays: 3. Group formation activities
- Group formation
- Getting started
- 4. Drama games: using games in the Shakespeare workshop
- 5. Drama exercises: using drama exercises in the Shakespeare workshop
- 6. Shakespeare's language: the aims of language work
- Shakespeare's language gives 'the motive and the cue' for action
- Discourse and rhetoric as sources of dramatic energy and action
- Language ownership and familiarity through workshops
- Teaching approaches: listen and speak, active reading, learn and act
- 7. Narrative in Shakespeare: harnessing the power of narrative's theatricality
- The nature of Shakespeare's narratives
- Teaching approaches: Structural approaches, dynamic approaches, investigative approaches
- 8. Character in Shakespeare: changing ideas about character in drama
- Characters and their speech utterances
- Role differentiated from character
- Character and setting
- Mise en scene
- Teaching approaches: personal encounters with roles
- Roles in social settings
- Roles in action in the narrative
- Notes
- References
- Index.
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