Approaches to teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet / edited by Bernice W. Kliman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kliman, Bernice W.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature 1059-1133 ; 72.

Approaches to teaching world literature, 1059-1133 ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Physical Description:

xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2001.

Summary:

This Approaches volume culls from thousands of works on Hamlet those editions, anthologies, reference materials, films, and Web sites that will be of greatest help to teachers. The essays present a wide array of techniques and tips for presenting the play to students.

Contents:

Part 1 Materials / Bernice W. Kliman

Editions 3

Single-Play Editions for Students 4

Single-Play Editions for Instructors and Advanced Students 6

Complete Works 7

Anthologies 9

The Student's and Instructor's Library 9

Criticism 11

Aids to Teaching 12

An Annotated and Chronological Screenography: Major Hamlet Adaptations and Selected Derivatives / Kenneth S. Rothwell 14

Part 2 Approaches

Introducing Verse and Meter

Hearing the Poetry / George T. Wright 41

Dancing the Meter / Ellen J. O'Brien 48

The Multiple-Text Hamlet

"The Play's the Thing": Constructing the Text of Hamlet / T. H. Howard-Hill 52

An Editing Exercise for Students / Randall Anderson 57

Teaching with a Variorum Edition / Frank Nicholas Clary 62

Teaching Hamlet through Translation / Jesus Tronch-Perez 66

Performance Approaches

Exploring Hamlet: Opening Play Texts, Closing Performances / Edward L. Rocklin 73

To Challenge Ghostly Fathers: Teaching Hamlet and Its Interpretations through Film and Video / Stephen M. Buhler 77

Critical Practice through Performance: The Nunnery and Play Scenes / Mary Judith Dunbar 81

Teaching the Script: The "Mousetrap" in the Classroom / Michael W. Shurgot 86

Narrative, Character, and Theme

Hamlet's Narratives / Arthur F. Kinney 90

From Story to Action: A Graduated Exercise to Teach Hamlet / Nina daVinci Nichols 95

A World of Questions: An Approach Indebted to Maynard Mack / Robert H. Ray 97

"That Monster Custom": Highlighting the Theme of Obedience in Hamlet / Joan Hutton Landis 102

Teaching Hamlet as a Play about Family / Bruce W. Young 107

Ten Questions Basic to Interpreting Hamlet, with Special Focus on the Ghost / Roy Battenhouse 113

Comparative Approaches

The "Encrusted" Hamlet: Resetting the "Mousetrap" / Graham Bradshaw 118

Teaching Hamlet in a Global Literature Survey: Linking Elizabethan England and Ming China / Paula S. Berggren 129

Hamlet in a Western Civilization Course: Connections to Montaigne's Essays and Cervantes's Don Quixote / Ann W. Engar 134

The Pyrrhus Speech: Querying the Uses of the Troy Story / Lisa Hopkins 138

From Elsinore to Mangalore and Back: Hamlet between Worlds / Ralph Nazareth 141

Modern and Postmodern Strategies

The Gertrude Barometer: Teaching Shakespeare with Freud, Eliot, and Lacan / Julia Reinhard Lupton 146

"She Chanted Snatches of Old Tunes": Ophelia's Songs in a Polyphonic Hamlet / Nona Paula Fienberg 153

Decentering Hamlet: Questions and Perspectives Concerning Evidence and Proof / Terry Reilly 157

More than Child's Play: Approaching Hamlet through Comic Books / Marion D. Perret 161

Hamlet and Sylvia, Shakespeare and Bambara: Reading Hamlet as Context / Mary S. Comfort 165

Focus on Scenes

Act 1, Scene 3: An Introduction to Hamlet / Michael J. Collins 170

Act 2, Scene 1, 75-120: Psychoanalytic Approaches / H. R. Coursen 174

The Closet-Scene Access / Maurice Charney 180

Language, Structure, and Ideology: Act 4, Scene 5 / John Drakakis 184

The Fencing Scene / Laurie E. Maguire 191

Shaping Our Ends: A Workshop on the Last Scene / Arthur Kincaid 197

Hamlet Online

The Prince of Punk in the Festive Classroom / James R. Andreas Sr. 201

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Hamlet in a Distance-Learning Classroom / Anthony DiMatteo 206

E-Mail to Facilitate Discussion / Eric Sterling 211

Short Takes

Hamlet Refracted through Three Definitions of Tragedy / David G. Hale 214

Francis Bacon's "Of Revenge" / Margaret Maurer 216

Introducing Students to Effective Refutation / Joanne E. Gates 216

Believing and Doubting Ideas about Hamlet / Meta Plotnik 218

Students as Characters, Speaking in Character / Christine Mack Gordon 219

Two Ways to Use Film for Student Writing / Rob Kirkpatrick 219

Hamlet Is Not Mad / D. Buchanan 221

Defamiliarzing Hamlet: Hamlet with and without His Soliloquies / Barbara Hodgdon 222

Helping Chinese Students Study Hamlet / Luo Zhiye 223

Oral Reports on Criticism / Edna Zwick Boris 224

Teaching Text and Performance through Soundscripting / Michael W. Young 226

More Matter (but Not Necessarily Less Art): Using My Coloring Book to Introduce Seventh Graders to Hamlet / Denise M. Mullins 227

Priming Questions for the "Mousetrap" / Bente Videbaek 230

Puns and Wordplay in Hamlet / Paul J. Voss 231

Leaping into the Text: Teaching Stage Directions in Act 5, Scene 1 / Hardin L. Aasand 232

Groups Debating Issues / David George 233

Existential Questions / Alan R. Young 234

Writing to Make Personal Connections / Mike Sirofchuck 235

Words, Words, Words: Comparing, Cutting, Explaining / Nathaniel Strout 235

Hamlet and Subjectivity / Dympna Callaghan 237

Cheating Death: The Immortal and Ever-Expanding Universe of Hamlet / Maria M. Scott 239

Editions 255

Single-Play Editions 255

Complete Works 256

Anthologies 256

References and Guides 257

Criticism 262

Aids to Teaching 273

Works on Teaching 273

Shakespeare on Screen 275

Special Editions, Comic Books, School Guides, Audio Performances 278

Journals 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-282) and indexes.

ISBN:

0873527674

0873527682

OCLC:

46969909