COD 2024 - D993
Webinar - Staging Fear. Teaching Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (set text; AS & A Level Literature 2024)
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching Literature, in general, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective
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sessions, start: 03-Jul
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2024
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa MA
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Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 03 July 2024 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Cecilia Lasa
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching Literature, in general, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective
- To identify the main problems and challenges teachers and student may face when studying Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the play
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contributes to the main conflict(s) in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the play
- To discuss possible strategies, activities, resources and dynamics to tackle Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in class
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the play
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contributes to the main conflict(s) in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the play
- To discuss possible strategies, activities, resources and dynamics to tackle Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in class
- The USA in the context of the Cold War.
- Character construction.
- Setting and Atmosphere.
- Violence and intimacy.
- The relevance of gender.
- Character construction.
- Setting and Atmosphere.
- Violence and intimacy.
- The relevance of gender.
- Recovery of attendees' main difficulties when teaching literary texts and of their previous knowledge about the play and its author
- Discussion of the problems related to the context of production
- Introduction to Edward Albee’s experimental theatre and the importance of this play
- Exploration of specific features of the play –stage directions, characters, setting, conflict, etc.
- Guided group analysis of the play
- Discussion of the problems related to the context of production
- Introduction to Edward Albee’s experimental theatre and the importance of this play
- Exploration of specific features of the play –stage directions, characters, setting, conflict, etc.
- Guided group analysis of the play
Source text
Albee. E. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Critical and theoretical material
Adams. M. (1962). Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. New York: Wang High School of Queens.
Selerie, G. and Handley, G. (1992). Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Cambridge’s Bibliography about Literature in English
Cambridge International Examinations (2018). Learner Guide IGCSE® Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Russell, C (2018). Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whitthome, E (2018). AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Albee. E. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Critical and theoretical material
Adams. M. (1962). Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. New York: Wang High School of Queens.
Selerie, G. and Handley, G. (1992). Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Cambridge’s Bibliography about Literature in English
Cambridge International Examinations (2018). Learner Guide IGCSE® Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Russell, C (2018). Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whitthome, E (2018). AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.