This blog has come about because of a chance comment by one of my students. He said that he wished that there was somewhere he could go for ideas on how to teach Shakespeare to his class. I'm going to attempt one idea each day.

Friday, 10 June 2011

Low Comedy- in it for the laughs

Shakespeare uses low comedy to make the audience laugh and to contrast with dramatic scenes thereby heightening the drama.  The only problem is that the low comedy in Shakespeare's plays appealed to Shakespeare's audiences.

Ask students to rewrite a scene of low comedy that a modern audience would find funny- discuss first the various kinds of comedy and what make things funny or not.

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