Teaching Shakespeare (eBook)

Cover 1
Title Page 
2 
Copyright 
3 
Table of Contents 
4 
Body 
6 
Einführung 6
Romeo and Juliet 4
Teacher’s section 12
Brainstorming: Romeo and Juliet (WS 1) 13
Focus on characters (WS 2) 14
Course of action (WS 3) 15
Romeo and Juliet’s first encounter (WS 4a/4b) 16
Focus on structure (WS 5) 18
Sonnets (6a/6b) 19
Comparing film adaptations (WS 7a/7b) 21
Manipulating the viewers’ sympathy (WS 8a-8c) 23
Catastrophe (WS 9a/9b) 26
Hot seat (WS 10) 28
“My only love sprung from my only hate”: Juliet’s courageous fight for love (WS 11a-11e) 29
Answer key 34
Hamlet 36
Teacher’s section 36
Finding your way through the play (WS 1) 38
Comparing film trailers (WS 2a/2b) 39
Character relations in Hamlet – changing perspectives (WS 3) 41
Creating a commercial to promote Hamlet (WS 4) 42
“To be, or not to be famous soliloquy (WS 5a/5b) 43
Translator’s workshop (WS 6a-6c) 45
Hamlet and Ophelia – star-cross’d lovers, too? (WS 7a/7b) 48
Hamlet’s tragic ending: enough “cause for grief”? (WS 8a/8b) 50
Answer key 52
Macbeth 53
Teacher’s section 53
Plotting “Macbeth” (WS 1a/1b) 54
As if by magic – witchcraft or reality? (WS 2a/2b) 56
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth: the dream team of power? (WS 3a-3c) 58
Hot seat (4) 61
“Out, out brief candle…” – the end of Macbeth’s despotic reign (WS 5a-5c) 62
Answer key 65