im teaching hamlet rn to my 11th graders
and all of your comparisons are making me want to also teach them king lear which i simply. do not have time for.
it’s ok I think hamlet is the more important play for an 11th grade class to obsess over :)
I think the first time I got really into hamlet was around 11th grade
however– for me personally, I read hamlet in 12th grade english lit, and simultaneously read king lear in AP Lit– and somehow still didn’t make all these (seemingly obvious) comparisons until afterwards
[but if you actually want a way to teach both, I’d say the fastest and simplest solution is to read hamlet thoroughly in class, and then watch a production of king lear so you could make comparisons between the two]
linking my hamlet/king lear posts here!
hamlet vs king lear; re: having appropriate amounts of suspicion