COD 2024 - D994

Webinar - Through her Eyes. Teaching Antony and Cleopatra (set text, IGCSE Literature 2024)

Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching Literature, in general, and Antony and Cleopatra, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective

1 sessions, start: 07-Aug

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
1 07 August 2024 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Cecilia Lasa

Cecilia Lasa is a Teacher of English (IESLV “Juan R. Fernández”) and a Teacher of Literature (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA). She holds a Master's Degree in Literatures in Foreign Languages and in Comparative Literatures (UBA) and a Higher Diploma in Research in Humanities (UBA). She has done a Specialisation in Reading, Writing and Education (FLACSO) and in Writing and Literature (Ministerio de Educación). She has worked as a teacher of Literature and of academic reading and writing in Teacher Training Colleges in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and in Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda. She is currently working as a teacher and researcher in English Literature and American Literature (FFyL, UBA) and conducting her Ph. D research at Instituto de Filología “Amado Alonso” (UBA-CONICET). She is the author of Academic Writing and has edited and co-authored Literatura y formación docente. Proyectos de lectura y de escritura.
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching Literature, in general, and Antony and Cleopatra, 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 Antony and Cleopatra
- 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 Antony and Cleopatra
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the play
- To discuss possible strategies, activities, resources and dynamics to tackle Antony and Cleopatra in class
- Contextual aspects: society, politics, economy and gender in Renaissance England.
- Character construction.
- The foreign and the exotic.
- Gender and politics. Imperial expansion.
- Shakespeare’s reappropriation of history.
- 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 William Shakespeare’s dramatic world 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

Shakespeare. W. Antony and Cleopatra.

Critical and theoretical material

Dollimore, Jonathan. Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Hampshire and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Lasa, Cecilia and Menán, Carina. “Política del erotismo en Antony and Cleopatra, de William Shakespeare”. Paper read at the Terceras Jornadas de Lenguas y Culturas “Cervantes & Shakespeare o el diálogo de las lenguas”. Lanús, 2018.

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.
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