S319 - Shakespeare's King Richard III (set text IGCSE Literature 2010 -2011)

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	26 May 2010	05:30 PM	08:30 PM

IGCSE Literature teachers and lovers of Shakespeare's plays.

- To discuss why the text may be a good choice to train students for IGCSE Literature.
- To share knowledge about the context of production and about the setting in time, and discuss the need to teach this.
- To try to make the text accessible and enjoyable to our students.
- To explore some essay questions and activities to prepare students for the IGCSE.

- Analysis of genre, characters, structure, themes, gender roles.
- The Tudor myth.
- The Elizabethan period.
- The War of the Roses.
- Criticism of the play.

- Bloom, H. (1999) Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. London. Fourth Estate.
- Burgess, A. (1972) Shakespeare. Penguin. Harmondsworth.
- Burgess, A. (1974) English Literature. Longman: London.
- Dusinberre, J. (1996) Shakespeare and the Nature of Women. Macmillan: London.
- Gibson, R. (1998) Teaching Shakespeare. Cambridge School Shakespeare. Cambridge: CUP.
- Kott, J. (1967) Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Methuen: London.
- Spencer. T. (1961) Shakespeare and the Nature of Man. Macmillan: New York.
- Taylor, M. (2001) Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Paster, Gail Kern (1993) The Body Embarrassed. Drama and the Disciples of Shame in Early Modern England. Cornell University Press: New York.
- Rutter, C. (2001) Enter the Body. Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage. Routledge: London.
- Sinfield, A. (2006) Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality. Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism. Routledge: New York
- Dyson, E. (ed.) (1990) Shakespeare's Early Tragedies: Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet. Casebook Series. London: Macmillan.

- Textual analysis. - Group discussion.