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.

Thursday, 11 August 2011

What does it mean?

Some of the best known sayings that we use every day are Shakespearean in origin.

Hamlet says "I will speak daggers to her, but use none." From this comes the phrase 'looking daggers'

Ask students to explain what it means and why they think it has lasted so long as part of the language.

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