Employing Oedipus Rex'' and The Birthday Party'' as examples, the author demonstrates that literary criticism should give careful attention to parallels in format and content in the study of classical and modern drama. (RB)

Explains how the movie "The Lion King" may be used to elucidate Shakespeare's "Hamlet," a play about a prince who does not always seem heroic to modern audiences. Gives specific points of comparison between the two works concerning heroes, characters, conflicts, themes, ending scenes, and archetypal patterns. (TB)

The complex irony of Act III, Scene i, of "Richard II" indicates how Shakespeare directs audience response in the play. Understanding this process of directed response--a dialectic of alternatives--illustrates that a meaningful standard of kingship is not provided in the play by either Richard or Bolingbroke. (RL)

Offers practical advice for directors and actors regarding script analysis. Contains questions which the director can use to create a thorough analysis of the script and questions to challenge the actors. Asserts that answering these questions helps actors build a detailed character analysis providing directors with hints about how gesture and…

The series editor of the "Cambridge School Shakespeare" describes how recent Shakespearean theatre productions, involving astonishing cultural transpositions of space and time, have influenced his views about teaching the bard in schools. To reach students, teachers in multicultural settings should replace the pedagogy of explication and…

This paper discusses the problems of interpeting "Oedipus Rex" and argues that morality was not the primary question being raised in this play, nor was Sophocles urging people to humility and piety. Instead, Sophocles was primarily interested in the insufficiency of human knowledge. The gods and their role in destiny, the character and…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Erich Segal, William Arrowsmith, G. M. A. Grube, Anne Pippin Burnett, Eilhard Schlesinger, Bernard M. W. Knox, Eric A. Havelock, Jean-Paul Sartre, Christian Wolff, and Thomas G. Rosenmeyer--all dealing with the plays of…

Emphasizes teaching comprehension of literature by distinguishing logic of selections from the psychology of readers and writers. (RB)

Describes how, in his class on script analysis, the author has students watch videos of stage productions or films of a play that they have previously read. Includes a resource list of plays on video and where they can be obtained. (SR)

One of six student guidebooks in a series of 11 arts and humanities career exploration guides for grade 7-12 teachers, counselors, and students, this student book on exploration of theater and media careers presents information on specific occupations in five different career areas: Performance, writing, production, business, and…

Discusses analogy as a key to the meaning of literary works, e.g., viewing Hamlet as a character of honesty. (RB)

An account of the written work arising from an inter-disciplinary scheme based on the poem with a first year mixed ability class in a comprehensive school. (Editor)

Presents annotations of nine books (or sets of books) published between 1990 and 1997 that look at ways in which Shakespeare can be presented and explored in English or Drama classes. (NH)

Suggests that the theme of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is an oxymoron linking the two apparently contradictory ideas of death and sexual love. (RBW)