Teaching Reading Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9780415479073 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 208 str.

John Haddon

Opis

How can teachers enable their students to read Shakespeare well?

Secondary school teachers have to teach Shakespeare; it’s the law. Although many books and resources have been published over the years to help them with this task, few, if any, provide a sustained practical and critical discussion of what might be involved in it. Teaching Reading Shakespeare is concerned with what other resources on Shakespeare tend to leave out.

After a sustained analysis ways in which Shakespeare’s language might present difficulties to the young reader, and how these difficulties might be overcome, Teaching Reading Shakespeare explores:

• approaching the plays through narrative at Key Stage 3;
• reading the plays as scripts for performance at Key Stage 3 and beyond;
• the possibilities and problems offered by the kind of reading of Shakespeare required by examinations at GCSE and A level;

• the role of conversation analysis in helping to read and teach Shakespeare;
• why we might bother to teach Shakespeare at all, other than being obliged to by law.

The chapters can be read individually as developed investigations of particular aspects of teaching Shakespeare, or together as an accumulating argument about the teaching of Shakespeare as a practice.

Drawing on a wide range of critical reading and many examples of actual encounters between young readers and Shakespeare, ranging widely across the whole canon, and aiming to be at once practical and principled, analytical and anecdotal, Teaching Reading Shakespeare encourages teachers to develop a more informed, reflective and exploratory approach to the teaching of Shakespeare.

Spis treści

Prologue  Part I: Language  1. Admitting the difficulty  2. 'All these old words'  3. Case Study: 'Virtue'  4. Grammar  5. Metaphor  6. Allusion  7.  Rhetoric  8. Paraphrase  9. Some strategies  10. Long Speeches  Part II: Aspects  11. Narrative  12. Theatre  13. Context   14. Interpretation  15. Talk  Epilogue: Finding Value in Shakespeare

O autorze

John Haddon has over 30 years’ experience of teaching English in the classroom, 17 of them as a Head of Department. He has contributed to a number of titles on A Level teaching practice, English in the National Curriculum and teaching fiction at Key Stage 3.