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Argues that viewing and analyzing fully staged live productions in teaching remains underexamined, while digitally relayed broadcasts and online resources expand access. 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Worthen observed that “actual stage performance” had been largely“omitted from the catalogue of ‘discourses’ that inform criticism”(Shakespeare and 154) . Now over twenty years later, the situation has changed: one of the liveliest areas of Shakespeare studies is performance criticism—that is, the study of Shakespeare-related theatrical production, performance, and reception. Just as important, actual performance has become an established part of pedagogical practice. As several recent articles attest, Shakespeare instructors routinely incorporate performance-related exercises in their classrooms (e.g. Bevington; Boyer; Costa; Esposito; Hartley,“Dialectical Shakespeare”) . It is also relatively common to require or encourage students to attend a live production, such as one might see at a Shakespeare festival or professional theatre, for instance the Guthrie or Folger, or at a regional, university, or community stage. Yet despite this field-wide investment in performance, the viewing and analysis of live productions in teaching remains a curiously unexamined convention in Shakespeare pedagogy.  \nInitially, this claim may sound counterintuitive, if not patently incorrect. Since the 1980s, publications in Shakespeare pedagogy have increasingly emphasized performance approaches to Shakespeare, presenting course and lesson plans with the foundational idea that a Shakespeare play is “not a poem to be interrogated for its themes, its symbolism, its imagery, but a script” for  \nenactment in performance (Sauer and Tribble 35) .1 As this literature has repeatedly shown, early modern plays are productively taught with and through performance methods—a distinct, if varied set of teaching practices that employ student acting and production, performance history, and film to help students realize how to “transform the words on the page into imagined voicesand imagined actions” and therefore to experience early modern drama as drama (Rocklin,“Performance is More” 50) .2 Furthermore, many theatres, such as Shakespeare’s Globe, The National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company provide online resources for school and university instructors, including suggested activities, still production images, videos of scenes, and interviews with actors, all of which also help instructors to familiarize students with issues in performance. Yet these activities and resources are not the same as seeing as live show, and they present different opportunities and challenges from those involved with having students view a fully staged drama live. Even with these many publications and resources, teaching live theatrical performance has only received passing attention in the published criticism on Shakespeare pedagogy.3  \nAs a relatively common tool and object of analysis in teaching Shakespeare and dramatic literature in general, live performance deserves further attention within the pedagogical literature. This is even more true now, since the development of digitally relayed live broadcasts has widened access to theatre, creating greater possibilities for incorporating some version of alive production into a course. As with any activity, such incorporation benefits from conscientious framing, since otherwise a live performance can end up being just an ancillary enrichment experience—interesting but not necessarily related to the objectives ofthe course.  \nThis is especially true of live performance, since some students may never have been to the theatre before and therefore may have little sense of what to look for when watching a play. As Sarah Werner points out, students often need help “thinking in terms of how performances make meaning”(344) .4 Even students with considerable experience may need guidance to evaluate a production critically in ways that relate to the course outcomes and aims. Thus, as Lois Potter ha","cbCaihMTyOXXxybJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihMTyOXXxybJ","pdf",398644,44,"English","# Background: Performance criticism and a pedagogical gap\n# Why live performance is distinct from online resources\n# Access and framing: digitally relayed broadcasts\n# Preparing students to evaluate productions\n# Guiding questions for teaching live Shakespeare\n# Scope and entry point of the article","[{\"question\":\"Why is live performance relevant to Shakespeare studies in teaching?\",\"answer\":\"Live performance supports performance criticism and is an established pedagogical practice, but teaching with live shows remains largely unexamined compared with performance approaches in general.\"},{\"question\":\"How do online resources differ from attending a fully staged live show?\",\"answer\":\"Online materials help instructors and students familiarize themselves with performance, but they do not replicate the opportunities and challenges that arise from watching a fully staged drama live.\"},{\"question\":\"What preparation do students need before attending a Shakespeare production?\",\"answer\":\"Students often need guidance to think about how performances make meaning and to learn how to “read” a production critically in relation to course outcomes and aims.\"}]","Situated Interpretation - Teaching Shakespeare with Live Performance | PDF",1792086383,111]