Adapted, with permission, from the Folger Recipe Cookbook
Audrey Stanley, University of California, Santa Cruz

Goals: To discover the feeling behind the dialogue and the tension between characters.

Number of Students: An even number, with pairs familiar with the same scene.

Equipment and Supplies: None

Class Time Needed: Twenty minutes or more

Step-by-Step Description: Partners first sit, reading their previously prepared paraphrases of the dialogue to one another. Then they get on their feet and run through the scene, using their own words to tap into the characters' emotions. Then, taking one another's arms, they do the scene in their own words, pushing and pulling one another according to the feelings their words spark.

Suggested Scenes:

• Act 1, Scene 2, The Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio and Grumio

• Act 2, Scene 1, The Taming of the Shrew: Kate and Bianca

• Act 2, Scene 1, The Taming of the Shrew: Kate and Petruchio

Points for Observation/Discussion: The difference between using Shakespeare's words and our own. The effect of close, active physical contact with partner.