The North Face of Shakespeare

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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