COD 2020 - D263

Webinar - IGCSE 2020: William Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Play of Transgressions

Secondary School teachers teaching IGCSE Literature

1 sessions, start: 11-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2020
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 1200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 1200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 11 August 2020 05:30 pm 07:00 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cecilia Pena Koessler

Graduate Teacher of English at Primary level and at Secondary level from I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández." Postgraduate course in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández." MA in Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham) and Medieval Studies Master's degree student (UBA). She teaches English Literature I and Children and YA 's Literature at I.S.P. J.V.González and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández" Teacher Training Colleges and IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. She has participated in research projects on Intercultural Awareness and Border Thery. She has co-authored "Little Stars" pre-primary series and "Our Stories" primary series for Pearson and designed creative writing and literature materials for other series (Pearson and Macmillan).
Secondary School teachers teaching IGCSE Literature
- To identify the role nature in the play and its symbolism through its imagery
- To compare and contrast the concept of nature in medieval and modern times
- To explore characters’ humanity or in-humanity, natural and unnatural events and wild and civilized settings
- To reflect on the presence of an ecological message in the play
The Tragedy of Macbeth deals with the decay of its protagonists as well as with the decomposition of a medieval world in the threshold of modernity. References to nature appear recurrently not only to show this critical moment but also to foreshadow the end of feudal society. Human bodies that lose their humanity for different reasons highlight the pervasive feeling of moral putrefaction of the play. The play debates itself between two different visions: that of ‘green ecology’ (Steve Mentz, 2011) representing the pastures or forests of the old tradition and that of ‘blue ecology’ (ibid.) standing for the newly discovered ocean. It is the aim of this workshop to analyse the above mentioned topics from an environmental perspective to enable students’ understanding through a hands-on and updated approach.
Webinar - Zoom
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• Gotfelty, C. & Fromm, H. (1996) The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Georgia: University of Georgia Press.
• Mentz, S. (2011) "Shakespeare’s Beach House, or The Green and the Blue in Macbeth" Shakespeare Studies Volume XXXIX.
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• Shapiro, J. (April 23 & 30, April 7 2012). The King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History. BBC.
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