ISBN: 9780743288507

Description: xiv, 274 pages ; 28 cm

Other Title: Teaching a midsummer night's dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth

Notes: Produced by the Teaching Shakespeare Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Contents:

• Introduction : "Do we get credit for reading this?" / Peggy O'Brien
• part 1. Thinking about the plays / Jeanne Addison Roberts, editor
• Triple-threat Shakespeare / Jeanne Addison Roberts
• Flaw in the flaw / Russ McDonald
• King James version of Macbeth / David M. Bergeron
• Shakespeare's clowns and fools / Meredith Anne Skura
• part 2. How to teach Shakespeare through performance / Michael Tolaydo, editor
• Three-dimensional Shakespeare / Michael Tolaydo
• part 3. In the classroom / Nancy Goodwin, editor
• A midsummer night's dream / Judith Elstein, editor
• Romeo and Juliet / Susan C. Biondo-Hench, editor
• Macbeth / Christopher D. Renino, editor.

Control Number: 2746049

Subjects:

• Comedy -- Study and teaching.
• English drama -- Study and teaching.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Study and teaching.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet.
• Tragedy -- Study and teaching.

Genre: Essays.

Other Authors:

• Bergeron, David M., 1938- author.
• Folger Shakespeare Library.
• Goodwin, Nancy, editor.
• McDonald, Russ, 1949- author.
• O'Brien, Peggy, author, editor.
• Roberts, Jeanne Addison, author, editor.
• Skura, Meredith Anne, author, 1944-.
• Tolaydo, Michael, author, editor.