Shakespeare — Richard III

William Shakespeare is the king of playwrights, leading the way for countless other masters in his craft. During this course, we will study the words, explore the themes, and examine the forms of one of the Bard’s best loved plays. 

Join Aman­da as she walks us through Shake­speare’s ‘Richard III’.

Live webi­na­rs for this course were record­ed in Jan­u­ary 2020

 

      • This is a 5 act play with 5 lessons, one per act, with a sug­gest­ed writ­ing assign­ment and addi­tion­al read­ing options. 

Course Materials

  • Fol­ger’s Edi­tion “Richard III” by William Shakespeare
  • DK “Essen­tial Shakespeare”
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How to Study

  • Read the syn­op­sis of the play’s scene or act from “The Essen­tial Shakespeare”
  • Skim the scene from the play search­ing for set­ting and characters 
  • Read the dia­logue in the scene — under­line words that you don’t under­stand, but don’t stop reading 
  • Lookup words that you mis­un­der­stood from the reading
  • Write your own 1 para­graph syn­op­sis of the scene that you just read
  • Write a sen­tence or two below your syn­op­sis of your opin­ion of this scene
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