COD 2011 - S390

The mind's eye; thought and counter thought in Hamlet's characters

Literature teachers.

1 sessions, start: 04-Jul

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 04 July 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Flavia Daniela Pittella

Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past 20 years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and Literature. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over nine years. She is a cultural journalist at Radio Mitre and several other media. She has published "40 libros que adoro y no podes dejar de leer". Planeta, 2014. She writes regularly for Infobae Cultura. She is the director of “El tercer lugar: espacio cultural”.
Literature teachers.
Reading Hamlet with teenagers can be a very fruitful experience but a very tedious one as well, given the nature of the text. It is the objective of this course to find elements of discussion (and ways of reading the play) that may lead students into a more purposeful reading of Hamlet, thus moving them away from a more often than not unwilling attitude. The issues of indecision and double thought are very much common ground of characters in the play and this may lead into a fruitful discussion and theme analysis of other topics present in the play.
through the initial analysis of the soliloquies in the play it is possible to engage teenage students in very interesting discussions regarding:
- Ways of reading.
- Elements of tragedy in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- Perception vs "real", friendship, treason, filial love, madness vs sanity, etc.
- Doubt over action as one over the key elements of the tragedy in Hamlet.
- Thought and counter thought; how to work out what to do!
Workshop: participants will be encouraged to participate and express their own views on the play and their experience reading/teaching it. The facilitator will try to expand on several possible ways of initiating the reading of Hamlet.
- Elsom, J. (ed.) (1989) Is Shakespeare Still our Contemporary? London & N.Y.: Routledge.
- Spencer, T. (1961) Shakespeare and the Nature of Man. London: Macmillan.
- Cahn V. L. (1996) Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies,
- Different film versions, comics and adaptations of the play.
Histories, Comedies, and Romances. Westport, CT: Praeger.
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