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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Teaching Folder

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£72.99

Quick Overview

From a writer who famously had ‘nothing to declare but his genius,’ we are pleased to bring you one of our latest additions to the EHd range. The Importance of Being Earnest is considered to be Wilde’s most famous play and we think it’s a great play to teach with your sixth formers.

In terms of teaching opportunities, this play opens up a spectrum of topics for students: the upper-class, affluent Victorian theatre, Wilde’s political ideals, libertarian traits, the lies and deception inherent in Victorian society, melodrama, satire and wit. It’s a great text because it opens up a host of teaching subjects that will not only allow pupils to gain a deep understanding of the play, but will also broaden their understanding of theatre.

Sixth formers will love Wilde’s sophisticated and sometimes controversial humour, his flamboyant and outrageous characters and his totally absurd storylines.


What's in the Teaching Folder?
Suitable for any of the major exam specifications this brand new teaching folder will allow you to teach the full play to your students. Whether your students have to study a set text for a written exam, use a play to create a devised piece or whether your students have to practically explore a play, this folder offers comprehensive teaching ideas and a wealth of photocopiable student handouts to help you teach this substantial play text and make your planning load easier. It encourages the students to look at the text from an acting, directing and design perspective.

The folder will allow you to teach this text in its entirety. It covers the play sequentially, act by act and will provide you with a variety of practical and theory-based activities. The folder guides students through analysis of the play, prompting them to research and discuss key themes, the play’s Victorian context, ways in which the playwright has been influenced by the world around them, the playwright’s background, style and influences, key issues and ideas, practical exploration of the text, evaluations of directorial interpretations of the text and twenty first century audience expectations.

The folder encourages in depth character analysis of all the major characters including directorial impressions of the main character/s, their functions, comparing key characters, practical exploration of characters and examining the playwright’s intentions behind key characters. Students will be encouraged to adopt their own unique directorial view of major characters, scenes and styles as well as being encouraged to approach the play from the perspective of a designer and performer.

There are an abundance of great characters and scenes to explore such as the dandy Algernon or the over-bearing and tight-lipped Lady Bracknell. The folder contains a wide variety of practical teaching ideas to help students explore these roles from physical perspectives.

If you fancy tackling a witty, flamboyant, ‘delicate bubble of fancy’ than this is the play for you!

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