Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students: The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Lesson 1: “Is It Your Will to Make a Stale of Me Amongst These Mates?” (Act 1, Scene 1)....Pages 3-4
Lesson 2: “Have I Not in My Time Heard Lion Roar?” (Act 1, Scene 2)....Pages 5-7
Lesson 3: “If You Strike Me, You Are No Gentleman” (Act 2, Scene 1)....Pages 9-11
Lesson 4: Words Invented by Shakespeare (Act 3, Scene 1 and more)....Pages 13-14
Lesson 5: “I Told You, I, He Was a Frantic Fool” (Act 3, Scene 2 and more)....Pages 15-16
Lesson 6: “To Me She’s Married, Not Unto My Clothes” (Act 3, Scene 2)....Pages 17-18
Lesson 7: Wicked Shakespearean Insults (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 19-20
Lesson 8: “My Falcon Now Is Sharp and Passing Empty” (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 21-23
Lesson 9: “She Will Be Pleased; Then Wherefore Should I Doubt?” (Act 4, Scene 4)....Pages 25-27
Lesson 10: “Better Once Than Never, for Never Too Late” (Act 5, Scene 1)....Pages 29-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Lesson 11: “A Stage, Where Every Man Must Play a Part” (Act 1, Scene 1)....Pages 35-36
Lesson 12: The “Pound of Flesh” Bond (Act 1, Scene 3)....Pages 37-38
Lesson 13: “And Say There Is Much Kindness in the Jew” (Act 1, Scene 3)....Pages 39-40
Lesson 14: “That Is the Very Defect of the Matter Sir” (Act 2, Scene 2)....Pages 41-42
Lesson 15: “Hie Thee, Gentle Jew” (Act 2, Scene 5)....Pages 43-45
Lesson 16: “I Have a Father, You a Daughter, Lost” (Act 2, Scene 5)....Pages 47-48
Lesson 17: “All That Glisters Is Not Gold” (Act 2, Scene 7)....Pages 49-50
Lesson 18: “If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed?” (Act 3, Scene 1)....Pages 51-52
Lesson 19: “It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain from Heaven” (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 53-55
Lesson 20: The Dark Comedy in a Nutshell (Act 4, Scene 1 and more)....Pages 57-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Lesson 21: Beginning of Trouble (Act 1 Prologue)....Pages 63-66
Lesson 22: Before Meeting “The One” (Act 1, Scenes 1 & 3)....Pages 67-68
Lesson 23: Love at First Sight (Act 1, Scene 5)....Pages 69-72
Lesson 24: A Very First Kiss (Act 1, Scene 5)....Pages 73-75
Lesson 25: Replaying Juliet in the Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene 2)....Pages 77-79
Lesson 26: Playing Hide and Seek (Act 2, Scene 5)....Pages 81-83
Lesson 27: When Things Fall Apart (Scenes from Acts 2 & 3)....Pages 85-87
Lesson 28: Breaking Someone’s Heart Softly (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 89-91
Lesson 29: Mourning Over Juliet’s Dead Body (Act 4, Scene 5 & Act 5, Scene 3)....Pages 93-95
Lesson 30: Is Tragedy Unavoidable? (Act 5, Scene 3)....Pages 97-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Lesson 31: The Witches’ Riddles (Act 1, Scene 1)....Pages 101-103
Lesson 32: Hailing Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 3)....Pages 105-107
Lesson 33: “Unsex Me Here” (Act 1, Scene 5)....Pages 109-111
Lesson 34: “Prithee, Peace: I Dare Do All That May Become a Man” (Act 1, Scene 7)....Pages 113-116
Lesson 35: “No, This My Hand Will Rather the Multitudinous Seas Incarnadine” (Act 2, Scene 2)....Pages 117-119
Lesson 36: “Sleep No More! Macbeth Does Murder Sleep” (Act 2, Scene 2)....Pages 121-123
Lesson 37: Lady Macbeth’s “Doubtful Joy” (Act 3, Scene 2 and more)....Pages 125-127
Lesson 38: Foreshadowing Failure and Death (Act 4, Scene 1)....Pages 129-130
Lesson 39: “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” (Act 5, Scene 5)....Pages 131-132
Lesson 40: Macbeth as the Tragic Hero....Pages 133-135
Back Matter....Pages 137-149