OTHELLO TEACHING SHAKESPEARE TEXT CLUES WITH KEVIN LONG CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER FEBRUARY 20, 2016
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OTHELLO TEACHING SHAKESPEARE
TEXT CLUES
WITH KEVIN LONG
CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER
FEBRUARY 20, 2016
WORKING WITH A TEXT BY SHAKESPEARE IS LIKE GOING TO THE GYM. YOU HAVE TO FLEX
THIS MUSCLE REGULARLY.
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Cool!
Why must I use these words NOW?
THANK YOU BILL!
THE MAGIC INDEX CARD
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We’d like to go back to calling this “The Magic Index Card” rather than “The Index Card Trick.” We like to think about the magical powers of a blank index card. Also, Marilyn suggested adding an illustration of a rabbit coming out of a hat in the upper right corner. Very important note
DEFINITIONS As You Like It
Phoebe: But sure he's proud, and yet his pride becomes him.
Know exactly what you are saying at ALL times.
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With 20 minutes for this whole thing, we can’t get bogged down in the various definition resources—can we combine the three definition slides all onto one slide? Pride is still a great example, but maybe you’re showing them less of what’s in each, or figuring out some other way of making this quick?
ECPHONESIS O
Iago: O sir, content you! I follow him to serve my turn upon him. Act I, scene 1
Barbantio: O heaven, how got she out? O treason of the blood!
Fathers, from hence trust not your daughter’s minds By what you see them act. Act I, scene 1
Othello: It was a handkerchief, an antique token My father gave my mother. Emilia: O God, O heavenly God! Iago: Zounds, hold your peace! Act V, scene 2
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Glad that Ecphonesis O is in here since it’s such a great “hook”—an easy clue to find and so fun to hear the difference it makes when you activate it. Should it come before the Emilia speech (since her speech doesn’t have any) as an introductory text clue, and then we look at the Emilia speech? Only take this suggestion if it makes sense to you, Kevin.
Othello, Act 4, scene 3
EMILIA: Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet, and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
When they change us for others? Is it sport? 5
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well else let them know 10
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
FULL STOPS
. PERIOD ! EXCLAMATION POINT ? QUESTION MARK
Othello, Act 4, scene 3
EMILIA: Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet, and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
When they change us for others? Is it sport? 5
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well else let them know 10
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
B B B
B
B
THANK YOU BILL!
MID STOPS
. PERIOD ! EXCLAMATION POINT ? QUESTION MARK
Othello, Act 4, scene 3
EMILIA: Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet, and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
When they change us for others? Is it sport? 5
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well else let them know 10
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
B B B
B
B
THANK YOU BILL!
M M
M M
M
MONOSYLLABIC WORDS
Othello, Act 4, scene 3
EMILIA: Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet, and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
When they change us for others? Is it sport? 5
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well else let them know 10
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
B B B
B
B
THANK YOU BILL!
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
M M
M M
M
“BIG BUT” WORDS Stress the “Small Words”
BUT, YET, OR, THEREFORE, IF, etc.
Always stress NOW, ALL, LONG
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Othello, Act 4, scene 3
EMILIA: Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet, and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
When they change us for others? Is it sport? 5
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well else let them know 10
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
B B B
B
B
THANK YOU BILL!
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
M
M M
M M
REPEATED WORDS AND
SOUNDS
Othello, Act 4, scene 3
EMILIA: Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet, and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
When they change us for others? Is it sport? 5
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well else let them know 10
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
B B B
B
B
THANK YOU BILL!
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
MONO
M M
M M
M
REPEATED WORDS AND SOUNDS
Assonance Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
Alliteration Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet, and sour
As husbands have.
/
_
/ / /
/ /
_
ANTITHESIS
Othello, Act 4, scene 3
EMILIA: Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet, and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do,
When they change us for others? Is it sport? 5
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well else let them know 10
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
THANK YOU BILL!
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We won’t have time for them to find all of these. Maybe you’re pointing teachers to look for antithesis in the first three lines only, then showing them the other examples you found later on in the speech really quickly?
GROUP SHARING OF TEXT EXPLORED
IAGO ACT II, SCENE 3
Read him, therefore; and againe, and againe.
I have a kind soul, that would give thanks!
–King John
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Suggested cut for time.
KEVIN LONG, Nominated for The 2015 Tony Award® for Excellence in Theatre Education, is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Harper College, the recipient of the Illinois Theatre Association’s 2012 Award for Excellence in College Theatre Teaching, an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and the President of the Illinois Communication and Theatre Association. Kevin has worked professionally in various equity and summer stock theatres in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois. Kevin has been teaching acting and theatre classes for over twenty-five years and has directed over sixty productions including his highly acclaimed production of Parade (Winner Best Revival of a Musical, Resident Non-Equity by BroadwayWorld Chicago, Nomination Best Direction of a Musical). Kevin has earned elite status as the only director who has completed Alfred Uhry’s Atlanta Trilogy (direction of three shows Parade 2013, Driving Miss Daisy 2013 and The Last Night of Ballyhoo 2014) capped off with a visit in June, 2014 from Alfred Uhry and presenting/directing An Evening with Alfred Uhry. Additionally, Kevin frequently presents his workshop “Shakespeare Whispers in Your Ear,” which explores the language and theatre of Shakespeare through the use of the First Folio. Most notably, he has taught Folio Technique at Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s teacher workshops for Othello, The Tempest, Macbeth, King Lear, Henry V and The Comedy of Errors as well as Chicago Shakespeare’s “Bard Core” Teacher Professional Development Program and their “Battle of the Bard” Competition. kevinlongdirector.com
Director of Theatre | Associate Professor www.kevinlongdirector.com Harper College1200 W. Algonquin Road Palatine, IL 60067 847.925.6944 [email protected]
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