Advantages: Modern day settings to relate to Disadvantages: Poor presentations
...subject on my degree was Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre. So imagine my delight when I realised that the BBC was re-producing 4 of Shakespeare's best loved plays:
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
Macbeth and
Midsummer Night's Dream. I think it would be best if I described each adaptation seperately.
Macbeth
To be honest I was looking forward to this one the most especially as I was teaching it to a bottom set Year 9 at ... ...plot outline of the original Shakespeare is that Macbeth returns from war with his good friend Banquo and much praise and credit to his name. When the King, Duncan, sees Macbeth he praises him by making him Thane of Cawdor. This clearly not being good enough for Macbeth, and with some less than subtle encouragement from three witches and his wife, he chooses to kill the King so he will rule Scottland. Banquo however, discovers what Macbeth has done ...
nkemp_99 21.01.2007
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