Shakespeare and Human Character

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.03.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Objectives
  3. Instructional Information
  4. Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Resources
  8. Teacher - Student - Classroom Resources
  9. APPENDIX A - Implementing District Standards
  10. APPENDIX B - Sample of Hal's speech / worksheet as referenced in Scaffolding
  11. APPENDIX C - Character Analysis with Suzie as referenced in Activity One
  12. APPENDIX D - Cleopatra's speech → First speech referenced in Activity One
  13. APPENDIX E - Enobarbus's speech → Second speech referenced in Activity One
  14. APPENDIX F - Cleopatra's speech → Third speech referenced in Activity One
  15. APPENDIX G - Movie Maker Assignment and Rubric
  16. Endnotes

That Lady is Loca! or Speech as the Main Method of Characterization in Shakespeare's Plays

Amanda Maureen Stefanski

Published September 2009

Tools for this Unit:

Annotated Bibliography

Aristotle, and Stephen Halliwell. Aristotle's Poetics. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1998.

Good for research purposes on the various parts of a play, including the importance of characters.

Beckman, Pat. "Strategy Instruction. ERIC Digest." ERICDigests.Org - Providing full-text access to ERIC Digests. http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-5/strategy.htm (accessed July 12, 2009).

Useful article about strategy instruction for students with disabilities.

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare the Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

A comprehensive discussion of each of Shakespeare's plays, as well as insight about several major characters from those plays.

Charlie Rose. "Charlie Rose - A conversation with Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom." Charlie Rose - Home. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/4618 (accessed July 11, 2009).

Interview with Harold Bloom about his book, "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Coleridge's writings on Shakespeare;: A selection of the essays, notes and lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the poems and plays of Shakespeare (A Putnam Capricorn book). New York: Capricorn Books, 1959.

Provides great insight into Shakespeare's writings and characters.

"Fast Facts." Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Home. http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/MEDIAROOM/ABOUTUS/Pages/FastFacts.aspx (accessed July 9, 2009).

Hazlitt, William. "UTEL: Characters of Shakespear's Plays, by William Hazlitt (1817)." University of Toronto Libraries Portal. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism/hazlittw_charsp/charsp_titlepage.html (accessed July 11, 2009).

William Hazlitt discusses Shakespeare's characters.

Hoskyn, Maureen, Carole Lee, and H. Lee Swanson. Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis of Treatment Outcomes. New York: The Guilford Press, 1999.

Provides detailed information about strategies and interventions for students with learning disabilities.

Johnson, Samuel. "Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare" (Abridged)." Rutgers-Newark: The State University of New Jersey. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/prefabr.html (accessed July 10, 2009).

Johnson provides valuable insight into Shakespeare's development of characters and his plays.

"Modern English Shakespeare Translations & Resources." Modern English Shakespeare Translations & Resources. http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/ (accessed July 9, 2009).

Provides modern English translations and helpful resources.

Ornstein, Peter A., Ross D. Parke, John J. Rieser, and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler. A Century of Developmental Psychology. Washington: American Psychological Association (apa), 1995.

James Wertsch and Peeter Tulyiste's chapter on Lev Vygotsky and the Social Learning Theory provides a basic understanding for why teachers should scaffold instruction.

"Shakespeare Resource Center - Shakespeare's Globe." Shakespeare Resource Center. http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html (accessed July 9, 2009).

"Shakespeare's Globe :: The First Globe." Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London. http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/abouttheglobe/background/thefirstglobe/ (accessed July 9, 2009).

Provides current and historical information about the Globe Theater in London, England.

Shakespeare, William (Author) ; Sparknotes Editors. Antony & Cleopatra (No Fear Shakespeare). New York: Sparknotes, 2006.

Shakespeare, William(Author) ; Sparknotes Editors. Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare) [MACBETH SG/E]. New York: Sparknotes, 2003.

Shakespeare, William(Author) ; Sparknotes Editors. Henry IV , Parts One and Two (No Fear Shakespeare). New York: Sparknotes, 2005.

The No Fear Shakespeare books provide the complete text of the original plays plus a line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare's words into everyday language. The books also include a complete list of characters with descriptions, as well as commentary to help with the reading.

Smith, Emma. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge Introductions to Literature). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Provides insightful look into Shakespeare's plays and characters.

Henry IV, Part One (Signet Classics). New York: Signet Classics, 1998.

The Shakespeare overview in the front of any of the Signet editions is extremely helpful for providing students with relevant background information.

More Tales from Shakespeare. Cambridge: Candlewick, 2005.

Williams takes seven of Shakespeare's most well-known plays and presents them in a large comic strip style that makes the plays vividly entertaining and visually interesting.

Scaffolding Student Learning: Instructional Approaches and Issues (Advances in Learning & Teaching). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Brookline Books, 1997.

Great resource for how and why to scaffold instruction.

Tales from Shakespeare. Cambridge: Candlewick, 2004.

    See annotation on More Tales from Shakespeare.

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