S304 - Messy relationships, or how to read Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night or What you Will" as a sitcom (AS 2010)
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Flavia Daniela Pittella
Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated form the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in several international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She is the author of Visual Arts and Communication, Student's and Teacher's Book. Tool Two Series, Richmond Santillana, Buenos Aires, 2000 (reprinted, 2004). She was co-editor of The Hermetic Garage literary magazine. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past ten years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and literature. She is General English Co-ordinator at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over six years.
AS literature teachers.
Reading Shakespeare in our days is not an easy task, especially when English is not your mother tongue. The objective of this workshop is to find characteristics in Twelfth Night that can make it a popular play with teenagers today. Transvestism, unrequited love, homosexuality, plus the usual friends and messy servants are today’s themes and characters in many of the sitcoms teenagers watch. Through this approach, the idea is that we can help our students enter the world of the play for them to be able to answer the different questions in the exam and also engage in a deeper, more complex reading of the play.
- Reading of the play aloud/performing some scenes: how does this activity contribute to the understanding of the mood in the play?
- Characterisation: how do the different characters speak for the different positions in society? How this is symbolically represented (costumes, gifts, letters, madness, etc.)? -Love vs. ambition: who’s who in the play.
- Elsom, J. (ed.) (1989) Is Shakespeare Still our Contemporary? London & N.Y.: Routledge.
- Spencer, T. (1961) Shakespeare and the Nature of Man. London: Macmillan. - Cahn V. L. (1996) Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, and Romances. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Workshop: participants will be encouraged to participate and express their own views on the play. The idea is that after all the discussion mentioned in the objectives and the experience shared by both teachers and facilitator; we will be able to devise different activities to suit the demands of the international examination.
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