Reading Shakespeare Film First

Studying Shakespeare in the high school classroom can and sometimes should begin with images and film. In Reading Shakespeare Film First , Mary Ellen Dakin asserts that we need to read Shakespeare in triplicate—as the stuff of transformative literature, theater, and film.  The potential for the mutual reinforcement and transfer of twenty-first-century literacy skills between text and film is too promising for classroom teachers to overlook. The heart of this book is a triangle whose three p