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Hamlet: The Perfect Play to Teach

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Hamlet: The Perfect Play to Teach



 

 

 
 

Complexity, Action, Romance...

 

Which of Shakespeare's plays is your favorite to teach? Charlene Beh makes the case for Hamlet as the perfect play for high school students. Finding relatable moments and suiting the action to the word through performance will bridge the gap between students and Shakespeare.

 

"It's a play about uncertainty, a play about taking action when you don't want to, about finding meaning when you lose faith," she says.

 
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"There's so much about performance... all these things students can do to think about how they would perform those moments from Hamlet."

 

~Charlene Beh

Newton North High School

Newtonville, MA




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