ShakesFear and How to Cure It

For teachers and lovers of Shakespeare, ShakesFear and How to Cure It provides a comprehensive approach to the challenge and rewards of teaching Shakespeare and gives teachers both an overview of each of Shakespeare's 38 plays and specific classroom tools for teaching it. Written by a celebrated teacher, scholar and director of Shakespeare, it shows teachers how to use the text to make the words and the moments come alive for their students. It refutes the idea that Shakespeare's language is difficult and provides a survey of the plays by someone who has lived intimately with them on the page and on the stage.

Ralph Alan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the American Shakespeare Center and Professor of Shakespeare in Performance at Mary Baldwin College, USA.

PART ONE : The Teacher
Chapter 1. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bard
Chapter 2. Seven Deadly Misconceptions
Chapter 3: Ten Don'ts
Chapter 4. Ten Do's
Chapter 5: Shakespeare Is Hard
Chapter 6: Shakespeare Is Boring
PART TWO: The Plays: 38 short chapters
Annotated list of available video
Index