El. knyga: Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

Across five chapters, Haughey provides excellent suggestions for teachers who face the challenges of teaching not only Hamlet but all of Shakespeare. . . Haughey structures each chapter with appropriate learning objectives and recommendations for reading aloud only those portions of text related to each chapter's suggested higher-level thinking activities. . . Each chapter offers insights for studying Shakespeare as a creative writer, an actor, a literary critic, an artist, and an editor. * Choice * In this valuable and more-than-helpful text, Dr. Haughey tackles the many challenges of teaching this iconic Shakespeare play to contemporary American students. Each chapter includes issues, questions, and activities honed over many years in the classroom that will not only guide students through the hazards of Hamlet but offer to teachers who read and use this book, ideas that will carry them through the more difficult parts of teaching, not just Hamlet, but all of Shakespeare. In Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom, 'the play IS the thing! -- Terri Bourus, general editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare, author of Young Shakespeares Young Hamlet: Print, Piracy, and Performance. editor of Shakespeare and the First Hamlet Joseph Haughey states that Hamlet is a play meant to teach readers how to think, and in the carefully designed and multi-layered chapters that follow, he proves to be a brilliant guide for enabling students to engage with the play and learn about themselves through such thinking. -- Edward Rocklin, author of Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare