Watching Hamlet's Mother: Exploring the Relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude with a Year 7 Class. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Philp, Hannah
• Is Part Of: Changing English. Volume 26:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 383
• Page End: 391
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Shakespeare -- gender -- sexuality -- classroom counterscript -- identities -- text -- response; English literature -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; English language -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 410
• DOI: 10.1080/1358684X.2019.1649592
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1358-684X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this essay, I draw on the experience of reading Hamlet with a class of 11- and 12-Year-old boys in a London comprehensive school. I explore how a number of comments in my classroom reveal the complexities of my students' thinking about gender and sexuality in Hamlet . I look at how these thoughts are difficult for the students to fully express, and I argue that it is necessary to attend to the heteroglossic nature of the language used within the classroom.