Winner of the 2007 Association of Educational Publishers Award for Best Professional Development Book. "At the heart of the book is the deeply held conviction that Shakespeare belongs to us all and that possessing that treasure can be play and not work. That is when we learn best. This book should be compulsory reading for all students of Shakespeare." DAME JUDI DENCH ShakesFear and How to Cure It is a book for teachers of Shakespeare at every level of experience. For beginning teachers the book provides a comprehensive guide to the pleasures of teaching Shakespeare and a step-by-step handbook for tackling twenty-two of the plays. For experienced teachers who are looking for new ways of getting their students excited about a topic so many of them fear, the book is an easy to access resource to a multitude of ideas and activities for the classroom. Casual readers will find a treasury of ideas about Shakespeare's plays and an infectious love of the subject by a renowned teacher and veteran director of the plays.
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Ralph Alan Cohen is Executive Director of the American Shakespeare Center and Professor of Renaissance Literature in Performance at Mary Baldwin College.
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All English and Theatre teachers should own this book,
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This book offers so many things for the classroom teacher, from suggestions for class projects, to readings for staging. It looks at Shakespeare from the aspect of performance--which is, after all, what his plays were written for. It will abolish your students groans, and inspire your (and their) creativity. Very practical. Very helpful. Worth reading and using.
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The indispensable resource for English professors everywhere!,
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This book is an indispensable resource; easy to use and motivational in so many ways. No English teacher should go without it! From how to stage bits of the play in the classroom to how to properly use filmed versions without losing your students' attention, this book has it all. It even includes sections on most of the commonly taught Shakespeare plays, including activity ideas and insight into the plays.
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A Phenomenal Guide to Teaching Shakespeare,
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I am a young teacher still trying to figure out how to teach Shakespeare to my tenth grade students. Not only is this text charming and phenomenally well written, it is also filled with helpful facts about each and everyone of Shakespeare's plays. There are helpful activities, information and a breakdown of the films you could use to help your students to understand the play. Shakesfear is a must have for any teacher's lesson plan arsenal. This book delivers on its promises, it definitely eliminates the "fear" surrounding teaching Shakespeare.
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Every school day in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand-in all those nations where English is the native tongue and in others where it is not-thousands of teachers wrestle with the problem of introducing students to Shakespeare. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
salic law, one speaking part, ask your students, divide your class Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Lear, Julius Caesar, Act Two, The Tempest, Act Three, Midsummer Nights Dream, Act Four, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labor's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Lady Macbeth, Act One, The Taming of the Shrew, Movie Versions, Act Five, Don Pedro, Ben Jonson, Twelfth Night, Duke Frederick, William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Sir Toby, Trevor Nunn, King Henry, Prince Hal Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Every school day in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand-in all those nations where English is the native tongue and in others where it is not-thousands of teachers wrestle with the problem of introducing students to Shakespeare. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
salic law, one speaking part, ask your students, divide your class Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Lear, Julius Caesar, Act Two, The Tempest, Act Three, Midsummer Nights Dream, Act Four, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labor's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Lady Macbeth, Act One, The Taming of the Shrew, Movie Versions, Act Five, Don Pedro, Ben Jonson, Twelfth Night, Duke Frederick, William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Sir Toby, Trevor Nunn, King Henry, Prince Hal Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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