6 Sensational Scenes From Favorite Plays and Dozens of Fun Ideas That Introduce Students to the Wonderful Works of Shakespeare
An experienced teacher—and Shakespeare fan—shares the six scenes she uses as springboards to introduce her students to the world’s greatest playwright. Ready-to-reproduce scenes from plays like Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and As You Like It plus exciting mini-lessons and motivating activities will help you and your students explore meter, metaphor, imagery, alliteration, and much more.
Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Shakespeare and Text is an indispensable and unique guide to its topic.
Cognition in the Globe. Attention and Memory in Shakespeare's Theatre
Shakespeare’s company coped with an enormous mnemonic load, performing up to six different plays a week. How did they do it? Cognition in the Globe addresses this question through the lens of Distributed Cognition.
Popular Shakespeare: Simulation and Subversion on the Modern StageIn recent years, the 'Popular Shakespeare' phenomenon has become ever more pervasive: whether in fringe productions, mainstream theatre, or the mass media, Shakespeare is increasingly constructed as an authentic part of popular culture. Naturally, these attempts to bring one of the most iconic symbols of high art into the realm of the popular have their problems. 'Popular Shakespeares' will frequently attempt to re-write the past or ignore cultural difference, postulating a universal appeal which transcends the barriers of class, nationality, and even history.
Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presentism is a critical manoeuvre which uses relevant aspects of the contemporary as a crucial trigger for its investigations. It deliberately begins with the material present and lets that set the interrogative agenda. This book suggests ways in which its principles may be applied to aspects of Shakespeare's plays.
