Exploring The Taming of the Shrew: Lesson worksheets for A Level Eng. Lit. teachers

Last week Crossref-it.info launched a comprehensive new guide for A Level Eng. Lit. students examining Shakespeare’s problematic comedy, The Taming of the Shrew.

Now there is help for teachers.

New updates mean that the text-guide is now accompanied by two sets of freely downloadable worksheets:

• Investigate The Taming of the Shrew handouts pose exploratory questions on each scene in the play, helping students build up a valuable bank of notes. Collated from the text-guide and covering:
  • Induction and Act 1
  • Acts 2 and 3
  • Act 4
  • Act 5

these are great timesavers for teachers, and can be used to help students revise, catch up missed work or simply to set for homework.

• Exploring aspects of the play and its world in greater depth and breadth, there are six new collections of lesson ideas exploring:
  • The play’s unusual double opening of the Induction and Act 1
  • How Shakespeare employs – and deviates from – the comic conventions of his era
  • Whether Bianca really is a ‘perfect woman’
  • The ways in which Petruchio and Katherina are paired and opposed
  • How the theme of marriage is developed through the play
  • How issues of social order and disorder permeate the plot.

Complementing most of these explorations are easily photocopiable student handouts.

Text-guide links

Each worksheet suggests where students can find handy information to help them deepen their knowledge by linking back to relevant pages within the new text-guide on The Taming of the Shrew. From there they can follow other links or simply roam through the wealth of material provided.

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