Teach students to take the pulse of a Shakespearean scene by reading with close attention to both the obvious and subtle changes in action and mood that occur within a scene.

Explore the open nature of a Shakespearean text by engaging students in multiple and contradictory readings of a single character.

Think outside the script for the words you, as an experienced reader, would use to describe Shakespeare’s complex and ambiguous characters, then teach these useful words through varied applications and multiple contexts.

Introduce students to the language of explicit stage directions and encourage them to explore the dramatic possibilities.

Provide students with a framework of activities designed to help them explore the sound, action, and meaning of a speech or sonnet, and to use the tools of the human voice to express what they have learned.

Train students to read Shakespeare with their mind’s eye by attending to the imagery and literally drawing conclusions in the form of frames of film.

Equip students to understand Shakespeare as the camera tells it, with a glossary of film terminology and techniques and a series of film clips that demonstrate directorial choices.