Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet
Editor(s): Bernice W. Kliman
Pages: xiv & 291 pp.
Published: 2002
ISBN: 9780873527675 (cloth)
ISBN: 9780873527682 (paperback)
"[These] essays leave the reader with a sense that the strategies our colleagues are applying are consistently stimulating. Indeed, this is a volume that is teeming with ideas, a volume that is bound to be well received by the many of us who are looking for new ways into the provocative world of Hamlet."
June Schlueter, author of Dramatic Closure and editor of Two Gentlemen of Verona: Critical Essays
For centuries Hamlet has been a source of inspiration for readers and audiences. The play's characters fascinated Romantic critics from Goethe to Coleridge, its themes interested psychoanalytic theorists from Freud to Lacan, and its ideas have engaged recent scholars of all schools. Teachers regard Shakespeare's great tragedy as rewarding, challenging, and ideal for classroom instruction and performance.
This volume, like others in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," 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 second part, "Approaches," presents a wide array of techniques for presenting the play to students--textual approaches, performance strategies, comparative and postmodern methodologies. Unique to this Approaches volume are twenty short takes--exercises, syllabus additions, and tips for teaching Hamlet.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet
PART 1: MATERIALS
Bernice W. Kliman
- Editions
- Single-Play Editions for Students
- Single-Play Editions for Instructors and Advanced Students
- Complete Works
- Anthologies
- The Student's and Instructor's Library
- References and Guides
- Criticism
- Aids to Teaching
- An Annotated and Chronological Screenography: Major Hamlet Adaptations and Selected Derivatives
Kenneth S. Rothwell
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Introducing Verse and Meter
Hearing the Poetry
George T. Wright
Dancing the Meter
Ellen J. O'Brien
The Multiple-Text Hamlet
"The Play's the Thing": Constructing the Text of Hamlet
T. H. Howard-Hill
An Editing Exercise for Students
Randall Anderson
Teaching with a Variorum Edition
Frank Nicholas Clary
Teaching Hamlet through Translation
Jesús Tronch-Pérez
Performance Approaches
Exploring Hamlet: Opening Play Texts, Closing Performances
Edward L. Rocklin
To Challenge Ghostly Fathers: Teaching Hamlet and Its Interpretations through Film and Video
Stephen M. Buhler
Critical Practice through Performance: The Nunnery
and Play Scenes
Mary Judith Dunbar
Teaching the Script: The "Mousetrap" in the Classroom
Michael W. Shurgot
Narrative, Character, and Theme
Hamlet's Narratives
Arthur F. Kinney
From Story to Action: A Graduated Exercise to Teach Hamlet
Nina daVinci Nichols
A World of Questions: An Approach Indebted to Maynard Mack
Robert H. Ray
"That Monster Custom": Highlighting the Theme
of Obedience in Hamlet
Joan Hutton Landis
Teaching Hamlet as a Play about Family
Bruce W. Young
Ten Questions Basic to Interpreting Hamlet, with
Special Focus on the Ghost
Roy Battenhouse
Comparative Approaches
The "Encrusted" Hamlet: Resetting the "Mousetrap"
Graham Bradshaw
Teaching Hamlet in a Global Literature Survey:
Linking Elizabethan England and Ming China
Paula S. Berggren
Hamlet in a Western Civilization Course: Connections
to Montaigne's Essays and Cervantes's Don Quixote
Ann W. Engar
The Pyrrhus Speech: Querying the Uses of the Troy Story
Lisa Hopkins
From Elsinore to Mangalore and Back: Hamlet between Worlds
Ralph Nazareth
Modern and Postmodern Strategies
The Gertrude Barometer: Teaching Shakespeare with
Freud, Eliot, and Lacan
Julia Reinhard Lupton
"She Chanted Snatches of Old Tunes": Ophelia's Songs
in a Polyphonic Hamlet
Nona Paula Fienberg
Decentering Hamlet: Questions and Perspectives
Concerning Evidence and Proof
Terry Reilly
More than Child's Play: Approaching Hamlet
through Comic Books
Marion D. Perret
Hamlet and Sylvia, Shakespeare and Bambara:
Reading Hamlet as Context
Mary S. Comfort
Focus on Scenes
Act 1, Scene 3: An Introduction to Hamlet
Michael J. Collins
Act 2, Scene 1, 75–120: Psychoanalytic Approaches
H. R. Coursen
The Closet-Scene Access
Maurice Charney
Language, Structure, and Ideology: Act 4, Scene 5
John Drakakis
The Fencing Scene
Laurie E. Maguire
Shaping Our Ends: A Workshop on the Last Scene
Arthur Kincaid
Hamlet Online
The Prince of Punk in the Festive Classroom
James R. Andreas Sr.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Hamlet in a
Distance-Learning Classroom
Anthony DiMatteo
E-Mail to Facilitate Discussion
Eric Sterling
Short Takes
Hamlet Refracted through Three Definitions of Tragedy
David G. Hale
Francis Bacon's "Of Revenge"
Margaret Maurer
Introducing Students to Effective Refutation
Joanne E. Gates
Believing and Doubting Ideas about Hamlet
Meta Plotnik
Students as Characters, Speaking in Character
Christine Mack Gordon
Two Ways to Use Film for Student Writing
Rob Kirkpatrick
Hamlet Is Not Mad
D. Buchanan
Defamiliarizing Hamlet: Hamlet with and without His Soliloquies
Barbara Hodgdon
Helping Chinese Students Study Hamlet
Luo Zhiye
Oral Reports on Criticism
Edna Zwick Boris
Teaching Text and Performance through Soundscripting
Michael W. Young
More Matter (but Not Necessarily Less Art): Using My
Coloring Book to Introduce Seventh Graders to Hamlet
Denise M. Mullins
Priming Questions for the "Mousetrap"
Bente Videbaek
Puns and Wordplay in Hamlet
Paul J. Voss
Leaping into the Text: Teaching Stage Directions in Act 5, Scene 1
Hardin L. Aasand
Groups Debating Issues
David George
Existential Questions
Alan R. Young
Words, Words, Words: Comparing, Cutting, Explaining
Nathaniel Strout
Hamlet and Subjectivity
Dympna Callaghan
Epilogue
Cheating Death: The Immortal and Ever-Expanding Universe of Hamlet
Maria M. Scott
Works Cited and Materials for Further Study
Index of Names
Index of Scenes in Hamlet
Index of Characters in Hamlet, Other Than Hamlet
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