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For your own pleasure not for school Shakespeare Retold Taming of the Shrew. It is very funny. Delightful scene of woman in wedding dress changing a tire because her new husband won't do it.
Taming of the Shrew is HILARIOUS. Never taught, but know the play well.
I have done Midsummer with kids as young as 8th grade. I agree that they need exposure to something other than a tragedy. We’re doing it with sophomores this year.
My students and I absolutely loved “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. We studied it as a class. The students then rehearsed and costumed the play for presentation to the self-contained classes. Education and fun all rolled up into one package.
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As a student 40 YEARS AGO we watched the 1968 R& J in the school auditorium, all of the 10th grade English classes each hour. They did not stop the film to explain, it just ran, and it took several days to complete. When we were back in class, our teacher said, “Now that you completely understand R & J we are going to do ‘The Merchant of Venice’.” 😳😱🤦🏻♀️
However I did get TMoV when she taught it, but I did NOT understand R & J.
I have successfully taught “Julius Caesar” to accelerated 9th graders.
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Things have really changed since the 80’s, haven’t they? I remember watching “The Lion in Winter” and being completely clueless about its meaning, and I was in an honors history and English class! 😂Somehow we did well enough to go to college, but we sure do so much more scaffolding and discussion, relating what we’re reading to the world today.
A Midsummer Night's Dream always goes well, but the Merchant of Venice might give some unique opportunities to teach about discrimination
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That’s what I was thinking! We have a book club right before that unit, and many of the titles deal with identity, discrimination, etc.
I read "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with my sophomores. The titles you list are all great. I saw a modern adaptation of "Shrew" in college called "Kiss Me, Kate." There's just so much you can do with all of these plays.
And, no. You're not alone in your desire to italicize titles. ;)
Shrew or (better) Merry Wives. Merry Wives is a GREAT introduction to Falstaff and has some hilarious moments.
That would be my vote 100%.
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I saw “Merry Wives” at the Globe Theatre in Southwark, London a few years ago. I enjoyed the play, but they set it in the 1940’s. I was looking forward to seeing Elizabethan Era clothing!
Ah but I am a tender ass
I liked Julius Caesar better than Romeo and Juliet as a student.
How is Romeo and Juliet considered a comedy? I mean I know how it is. But I still don’t get it. I’m gonna go pout in the corner.
Quite right NCHS1. Most comedians will tell you that tragedy + time = comedy.
I taught As You Like It in eighth grade and I would do it in ninth. The kids like it, but because female characters dress as males and change their names, it can be a little hard to keep track of who is who. A character list helps with that.