Stream Bell Shakespeare Associate Director James Evans and Resident Artist in Education Emily Edwards' session at the 2024 Bell Shakespeare National Teacher Conference with the Teacher Membership.
Runtime: 51 mins
What kind of a leader are you, and what can Shakespeare’s characters teach us about our own personal leadership style? Shakespeare was obsessed with leadership. In each of his plays, he delves into both inspiring and disastrous leaders, and examines the backgrounds and behaviours that lead to one or the other. In this session, Bell Shakespeare Associate Director James Evans, and Resident Artist in Education Emily Edwards, will guide you through the best and worst of Shakespeare’s leaders, from the soaring rhetoric of Henry V to the heedless arrogance of Richard II, the skilful manipulation of Lady Macbeth to the rambunctious energy of Bottom. What do we learn from these extraordinary characters that can inform the way we speak, guide, inspire and lead in the classroom?
Featuring performances of extracts from across Shakespeare’s canon, in this session teachers will reflect on their own unique personal leadership style, and on the kind of leader they want to be in the future. They will identify and reflect on the facets of successful and unsuccessful leadership, inspired by a study of Shakespeare's leaders.
