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.

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Animal imagery 3

Dog imagery is often used to describe the fact that people are all different-

Provide students with copies of Macbeth's speech Act III, i beginning "Aye, in the catalogue ye go for men;" and  also Edgar's speech from King Lear III,vi beginning "Avaunt, you curs."  The second seems to be literal but in the light of reading Macbeth's speech how does it alter the meaning of Edgar's speech?

Ask students to explain what the two characters are saying and to discuss how using the animal imagery helps to add colour to their words.

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