Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet

By Bernice W. Kliman

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873527682
• ISBN13: 9780873527682
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Very helpful guide to teaching Hamlet

I taught Hamlet for the first time this semester and found this book immensely helpful. The essays cover a wide range of approaches to teaching the play and contain useful ideas for all kinds of classes--whether survey classes or seminars, classes composed of high school students or undergrads or graduate students, as well as students with a range of proficiency with the English language and with literature & literary analysis in general. I found particularly helpful the essay on the theme of "obedience" in Hamlet, and also used several of the exercises described in other essays -- one in which the students "stage" the "play-within-the-play" from Act III (fun and effective) and another having them compare different texts of the "O, what a rogue & peasant slave am I" speech from Act II (harder for my community college undergrads). I had the book from the library, but will be buying my own copy so I have it for next semester--when I teach the play again.