Shakespeare Magazine ~ Winter 1998

Shakespeare
Volume 2, Issue 1
WINTER 1998

TEACHING SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE

Sneaking Up on Shakespeare's Language
Paul Stevenson helps students to master Shakespeare's language long before they encounter it in a play.

Demystifying Will's Words
Martha Harris presents a primer on Shakespeare's prosody.

Sentence Scramble
Randal Robinson's exercise on word order provides the springboard for an excellent language activity.

Mangling the Language
Mary Ciccone shows how to learn from Dogberry's mistakes.

Explication Checklist
Russ McDonald takes students through twenty steps to analyze a passage.

Now and Then
Chris Renino uses before-and-after comparisons to connect words with character traits.

TEACHING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS

A Sonnet Concertina
Deanna Hebbert shows how an art project intensifies appreciation of Shakespeare's poetry.

Experiencing a Sonnet
Louisa Newlin helps students to connect with the words of a sonnet in an exciting and moving way.

Volume 2, Issue 1, Winter 1998

FEATURED ARTICLES

Shakespeare's Fountain of Words
Jeffrey McQuain discusses his new book about the 1,500 words Shakespeare coined.

"To select the most useful coinages, we winnowed our list through word debates, usually more TRANQUIL (Othello) than QUARRELSOME (The Taming of the Shrew)--although I did occasionally RANT (Hamlet again)."

Making Melodies for Branagh's Films
Sarah Hatchuel interviews Patrick Doyle, the composer for Henry V, Much Ado, and Hamlet.

Shakespeare & Company: A Passion for Education
Andrea Alsup talks with Mary Hartman about one of the world's most successful education programs.

"According to Hartman, teenagers are dying to try new things and to take risks, but lack of experience has made them passive and fearful of using their bodies, voices, and imaginations in the classroom. Often this is what happens: students are on their feet, Shakespeare in hand, ready to start the agonizing process of reading aloud in what appears to be a foreign language. They stand as though they might converse but are staring down at their books. "You want them to have relationships with their fellow characters, not with their texts," points out Hartman. "So take their texts away."

Newsgroup Airs Ideas about Shakespeare--From Scholarly to Slightly Silly
Lynette P. Wood describes humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare, a popular Internet discussion group.

BROADSHEET
An excerpt from Rex Gibson's new collection of language activities.

NEWS ON THE RIALTO
A compendium of courses, conferences, and theatre performances around the world.

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