@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00015771, author = {NIWA, Saki}, journal = {鹿児島大学教育学部研究紀要. 教育科学編, Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University. Studies in education}, month = {Mar}, note = {Shakespeare’s plays are often taught to undergraduate students in Japan by incorporating them into the syllabus of English or British literature. One of the methods of teaching Shakespeare’s plays is through the intensive reading of the texts, which is an essential technique to enable students to focus on the words and arouse a deep interest in the beauty of his plays. Students are encouraged to consider alternative meanings and connotations of various words or phrases spoken by characters through an intensive reading. At the same time, it is important for teachers to make students recognise that Shakespeare’s plays were originally written to be performed in theatres. This means that multiple aspects of the plays, which include not only words but also visual images, music, mutual responses between performers and audiences, and even a faint sound of breathing brought by their excitement, are incorporated in the same spatial world in theatres. If teachers want to develop the diverse gifts of students by teaching Shakespeare’s plays, they should expand their approaches further to equip students with wider knowledge. With this assumption, I suggest that a cross-genre approach would be meaningful because drama is primarily a comprehensive art, and Shakespeare’s plays should also be taught as such. I refer to several ways for teaching Shakespeare’s plays from cross-genre perspectives.}, pages = {119--126}, title = {Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays from the Viewpoint of Comprehensive Art: A Cross-Genre Approach in English Classes for a Better Understanding of Individual Plays}, volume = {72}, year = {2021} }