Paper Details

Name: Cinematizing the ‘Bard’ for Indian Classrooms
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-3, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 11-16

India of the twenty first century has seen tremendous developments in the field of technology used in various sectors through different digital techniques, be it the industry, commerce, etc. Even the education sector has also been digitalised. The new technologies used while teaching are projector, DVD, PPT, etc. The innovative methods are being explored by the teachers having cognitive thinking. These innovative methods include exhaustive use of the technological devices available to them and when it comes to teaching English, which is considered a foreign language, the digitalisation of teaching becomes handy for the teacher as well as for the students. English literature teaching is considered a challenging task and when a teacher is assigned to teach Drama and Fiction to the undergraduate classes, it becomes difficult for the teacher to make the students read the complete text of Drama and/or Novel. If the student does not read or have the exact idea of the whole text, the charm of the story will be lost and the message conveyed by the writer will also not be interpreted the way he desired. The famous writers like the Bard ‘Shakespeare’, G.B. Shaw, Earnest Hemmingway, and many others are deceptively simple. Moreover, the students nowadays have become tech-savvy and they have less interest in the conventional teaching methods. So, to make them interested in their studies and to educate them, it is requisite to use the devices they are well versed with, and one such medium can be the Bollywood movies based on famous English novels and plays. The main focus of the study is to explore how useful and successful this method has been with special reference to the Bollywood movies based on Shakespearean plays.