The North Face of Shakespeare argues that successful active work arises directly from the extraordinary dramatic power of Shakespeare's writing - from its language and poetry and its use of narrative and character. This teacher support book invites teachers and drama practitioners to think of their classroom as a stage, with their students as both actors and audience. It proposes that the text can be presented as drama - whether in quite simple ways sitting at desks or in open space in the classroom or workshop, the text can be spoken and performed by every learner in the room. The aim is for students to take away an engaged and secure understanding of that text to use in their own reading and study.
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
Extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.
Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre in the substantially revised, extended and updated latest editions of the highly successful series.
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"When it comes to suggestions for classroom activities, the Cambridge editions far excel their ...counterparts" "Immeasurably superior to the 'bilingual' editions with Shakespeare's words on one page and a 'translation' opposite." Ken Watson, English In Australia, Vol 42 No 1 (2007) pg 72
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