Shakespeare Shorties: Macbeth
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Shakespeare Shorties are for teachers who are long on ambition but short on time. These short, fifteen-minute scripts are a great way to expose middle grades to William Shakespeare's legendary stories, characters, and language in a format that is quick and easy to grasp.
Shakespeare Shorties can be used for formal performances or as a fun activity to get a class up and moving and students interacting with the text. Introducing Shakespeare with short, hilarious scripts allows important ground work for more in depth studies in years to come.
Follow Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as they get greedy and one death leads to another. The famous "double-double, toil and trouble" witches and the obligatory "knock-knock joke" make their debut in this brilliant tragedy. Despite the gore, Macbeth continues to be the most popular Shakespeare play done with children...go figure!
Diane Swanson
Diane Swanson is an artist, writer, teacher, and director. As a Drama teacher in the schools for fourteen years and teaching over a thousand students, she has created a series of great performance and visual art projects to introduce the beloved Bard to children. She also teaches a Shakespeare film course for teachers and directors.
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Shakespeare Shorties - Diane Swanson
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Shakespeare Shorties:
Macbeth
Adapted from William Shakespeare
by Diane M. Swanson
copyright 2012 Diane M. Swanson
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Smashwords Edition, License Notes
This ebook is licensed for classroom or theatre use only. You may copy the text and distribute as scripts only for your students. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.
Also available in this series:
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
To contact the author:
dmswan1988@yahoo.com
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INTRODUCTION
Shakespeare is for kids! They love the stories, humor, irony, quotes, and great characters. But as the school days get packed with new modern skills, the time to digest The Bard has become scarce. And if you’re