Keywords
Utah Shakespeare Festival teacher training, William Shakespeare active learning, Folger Shakespeare Library resources
Preview
Shakespeare is a staple in any English Language Arts classroom, but the value of the Shakespeare experience in your classroom has a lot to do with how you go about teaching the material. You have the power to make Shakespeare’s plays a strictly academic literature study or make them come alive as students actively explore and play with his themes, storylines, and characters. Shakespeare’s plays are dramatic works, so it is key to present them to your students as living, breathing, evolving texts. Studying his plays with a dramatic context allows students to relate physically, vocally, and emotionally with the text and create their own interpretations of a play or scene. Through the process, students often feel more ownership of their examination of the text.
Recommended Citation
Moss, Shawnda
(2017)
"Speak the Speech, Ditch the Desk: Teaching Shakespeare as Dramatic Text,"
The Utah English Journal: Vol. 45, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/uej/vol45/iss1/3