While Shakespeare was a young man he disappeared for a time - it's thought to the north of the country. What did he do while he was missing? Was he, like fellow playwright, Christopher Marlow a spy; was he on the run for some crime or other...it's given writers and historians lots to think about over the years.
Provide students with some basic information and ask them to come up with their own ideas - if they can link it to the play that they will study so much the better. Write it up as a story.
Remember stories have an exposition where the scene is set and characters introduced; a complication which does exactly what it says; the climax where things are at their most difficult, dangerous or threatening and a resolution which need not be a happy one.
No comments:
Post a Comment