Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare - Softcover

Rocklin, Edward L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814135102 ISBN 13: 9780814135105

Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English, 2005

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Rocklin explores how performance enriches students' understanding of Shakespeare's plays, with a focus on Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, and Hamlet. How can high school and college teachers help their students get the most out of studying Shakespeare? In Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare, Edward L. Rocklin offers teachers a wide array of concepts and practices to explore with their students' specific performances as well as the performance potentials of a Shakespeare text. Examining drama as both text and performance opens up a range of actions that inexperienced readers can miss when they are limited to reading words on the page. The importance of analyzing and interpreting Shakespeare's works becomes clear when students are encouraged to use their critical thinking skills to imagine and perform these texts. To help teachers incorporate a performance dimension into their literature courses, Rocklin's approach asks students to analyze, cast, rehearse, and perform parts of a play, as well as to observe, respond to, and learn from these performances. The many activities outlined in the book include making editorial choices, studying performance histories, staging scenes, and examining current productions through performance records, film, and video. After explaining the constitutive practices and models for performance, Rocklin provides in-depth lessons, including classroom discussions and activities, student responses, and carefully crafted writing assignments, to illustrate how performance works with three Shakespeare plays: The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, and Hamlet.

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Edward L. Rocklin received his BA magna cum laude from Harvard College (1970) and his MA (1974) and PhD (1981) from Rutgers University. He taught for five years at Clarion University in Pennsylvania and has been teaching at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, since 1986. Rocklin has published essays in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Yearbook, Shakespeare Bulletin, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, College English, and California English. In addition, he has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (1992-1993) and a participant in a yearlong program, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, titled "Shakespeare Examined through Performance," which was conducted at the Folger Shakespeare Library (1995-1996). From 1996 to 2000, he served as a regional director of the California Reading and Literature Project. Rocklin is working on a performance history of Measure for Measure to be published in the Manchester University Press series Shakespeare in Performance.

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• Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0814135102
• ISBN 13: 9780814135105
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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