TSI Portfolio
Hi! This is my portfolio for the Teaching Shakespeare Institute. Feel free to wander around the rest of my teacher website, or http://mrproctor.net, my student website.
Henry IV Part I Curriculum Sequence
Research Paper: Text and Image in Shakespearean Meaning
Shakespeare’s primary interest is in showing the nature of the world. His plays describe reality by representing scenes on stage, and through the characters’ language. Over the past several weeks, we have repeatedly discussed Shakespeare’s enduring ability to describe reality. I began my research process by asking whether Shakespeare’s primary metaphor for reality was text or image. To better understand the relationship between these facets of Shakespeare’s plays, this paper will examine three different traditions of visual interpretation arising out of Medieval Christianity, Renaissance Humanism, and the Protestant Reformation. I find these interpretive contexts to be fruitful approaches to Shakespeare’s plays. I have suggested examples of where they are relevant, but the emphasis remains on Shakespeare’s historical context, and not on analysis of his text.
Research Presentation
This is a brief presentation summarizing my research topic.
Curriculum Proposal
Macbeth Special Features Lesson Plan
My Macbeth Special Features lesson plan is posted as a Google Doc: Here's a link.
Macbeth Special Features Narrative
The "Acting Macbeth" special feature shows the process of developing the script into a performance. This feature highlights several specific lines from the play, shows the actors and directors discussing their understandings of the lines and the characters speaking them, and then shows how the lines are delivered in the production. This process is exactly what I want my students to be doing when they are planning performances of their own scenes.
