Objective: developing an ability to recognize imagery and building research skills in analysing its significance.
Materials: 1.5.43-52 (Romeo seeing Juliet for the first time) and 1.5.206-213 (Romeo and Juliet’s first conversation); dictionary definitions; google images searches.
Discussion: considering how to engage students with Shakespeare’s images and empowering them to analyse its meaning for themselves; discussing ‘visual annotation’ exercises that engage students in research activities.
Extracts provided from: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
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00:00 to 02:26 Introduction
02:26 to 03:45 Session objectives
03:45 to 05:30 Working practically and visually with Shakespeare’s text
05:30 to 09:30 The challenges of teaching (and taking joy in, and ownership of) Shakespeare’s language
09:30 to 12:30 Resources for working with Shakespeare’s language (The Lexicon of Early Modern English and The Oxford English Dictionary Online)
12:30 to 14:40 Exploring the “ideological baggage” of words
14:40 to 32:50 Discussion
