Have no fear teaching Shakespeare

James Brown

By James Brown
Community contribution / July 28, 2015

Teaching Macbeth for the twentieth time this year, I asked a colleague if the text had become disengaging or stagnant.

Her answer was, quite simply, “No, it is Macbeth. It is just such a beautiful text.”

The plotline is fairly ...

This story appeared in the August 2015 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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