Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello by Peggy O'brien

Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello by Peggy O'brien

The Folger Shakespeare Library, the nation's most important center for Shakespeare study and scholarship, is also the center for Shakespeare education. At the Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute, scholars, actors, and teachers from across the country work together at the business of teaching and learning Shakespeare.
This third volume of the Shakespeare Set Free series is written by institute faculty and participants. The volume sparkles with fine recent scholarship and the wisdom and wit of real classroom teachers in all kinds of schools all over the United States.
In this book, you'll find:

• Clear and provocative essays written by leading scholars to refresh the teacher and challenge older students
  
• Successful and plainly understandable techniques for teaching through performance
  
• Ways to teach Shakespeare that successfully engage students of every grade and ability level in exploring Shakespeare's language and the magical worlds of the plays

Day-by-day teaching strategies for Twelfth Night and Othello -- created, taught, written, and edited by teachers with real voices in real classrooms.

Peggy O'Brien was born and raised in western Massachusetts, where she and her husband presently reside. She is a professor at Amherst College, University of Massachusetts. She came to Ireland after graduating from Mount Holyoke College and studied at University College Dublin and Trinity College, where she taught for nearly two decades. Her poetry have published in The Yale Review, The Southwest Review, and Poetry Ireland Review, among other venues on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of Writing Lough Derg: from Carleton to Heaney, as well as the editor of The Wake Forest Collection of Irish Women's Poetry 1967-2000. She frequently visits her daughter and three granddaughters in Ireland.

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ISBN 13	9780743288514
ISBN 10	0743288513
Title	Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello
Author	Peggy O'brien
Series	Folger Shakespeare Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2006-08-01
Number of pages	240
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