Summer Shakespeare Study
May 4, 2009 - 4:54 pm
As we are finishing the Middle Ages, we have found that Shakespeare wrote plays about all these dubious characters we have been encountering in our studies. There is Richard III, Macbeth and Henry V, along with historical fiction such as the Merchant of Venice and Hamlet.
So we ventured into the library to find all kinds of interesting reads, as well as some animated movies about the plays. “We are going to do Shakespeare all summer,” I gleefully announced to my less than enthusiastic boys. “He is the most famous playwright in the world”.
To which Gabo sorrowfully replied: “I’d rather shake a spear all summer.”