My mom, when she was teaching Shakespeare to our homeschool co-op, would try to find a really good production of the play to pass around halfway through the class. When we did “Much Ado About Nothing” she used the really excellent Kenneth Branagh version but had to find someone to edit the video for her to remove two brief scenes with nudity and similar stuff not entirely appropriate for 14 year old homeschool kids.
I could see a similar use in a classroom, maybe, but that’s about it.
I suppose that makes sense. Not that many 14-year-olds, homeschooled or not, haven’t seen a backside, but it would be an administrative problem.
Poo Poo, she should have acted out every part of every character herself.
I mean actually letting you watch a MOVIE as a teaching tool of the intensity of Shakespeare!!
The “that’s about it” part is the whole part!
You guys are acting like teachers aren’t doing anything but watching movies in class. Of course that’s ‘about it’. But it’s a big IT!