Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults,9780415938563

Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415938563
ISBN10: 0415938562
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-11-22
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This is a collection of original essays about how Shakespeare and how his plays are increasingly being used as a means of furthering literacy, language arts, creative and dramatic learning for children in and out of the classroom. It is divided into three sections comprising essays by well-known children's book authors, literary scholars, and teachers, respectively, who approach the subject from a wide range of perspectives.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword xi
Jack Zipes
Acknowledgments xii
``What's in a Name?'': Collaborating with Shakespeare at the Millennium 1(10)
Naomi J. Miller
I. Biography, Adaptation, and Fictionalization 11(76)
In Love with Shakespeare
13(9)
Aliki
The Story Behind the Man Behind the Plays
22(7)
Diane Stanley
Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!
29(10)
Marcia Williams
``This is Young William'': Shakespeare and the Cumulative Tale
39(5)
Rebecca Piatt Davidson
``All the Colours of the Wind'': Shakespeare and the Primary Student
44(12)
Lois Burdett
Nutshells and Infinite Space: Stages of Adaptation
56(11)
Bruce Coville
Puck's Gift
67(7)
Sophie Masson
Shakespeare Speaks: Getting the Language Right
74(7)
Gary Blackwood
The Players, the Playmaker, and Us
81(6)
J. B. Cheaney
II. Interpretation and Critique 87(104)
Staging Shakespeare's Children
89(9)
Mark H. Lawhorn
Canning the Classic: Race and Ethnicity in the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare
98(9)
James Andreas
Alice Reads Shakespeare: Charles Dodgson and the Girl's Shakespeare Project
107(13)
Georgianna Ziegler
Strutting and Fretting on the Page: Representing Shakespeare's Theater in Illustrated Books
120(9)
Megan Lynn Isaac
Mediating the Supernatural in Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children: Three Unique Productions through Text and Illustration
129(9)
Douglas King
``The Play's the Thing'': Genre and Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children
138(9)
Alison H. Prindle
Promoting the Original: Perspectives on Balancing Authenticity and Creativity in Adaptations of The Tempest
147(6)
Amy E. Mathur
First One I and Then the Other: Identity and Intertexuality in Shakespeare's Caliban and Covington's Lizard
153(9)
Cynthia Perantoni
Harry Potter and the Shakespearean Allusion
162(9)
Miranda Johnson-Haddad
Playing with Shakespeare: Making Worlds from Words
171(9)
Jennifer Lee Carrell
Descending Shakespeare: Toward a Theory of Adaptation for Children
180(11)
Howard Marchitello
III. Pedagogy and Performance 191(107)
The Bard for Babies: Shakespeare, Bettelheim, and the Reggio Emilia Model of Early Childhood Education
193(8)
Sheila Cavanagh
Visions of Shakespeare in a Montessori Classroom
201(6)
Regine Ebner
Shakespeare Steps Out: The Primacy of Language in Inner-City Classrooms
207(10)
Janet Field-Pickering
``Your Play Needs No Excuse'': Shakespeare and Language Development in Children
217(14)
Kristen L. Olson
Players, Playgrounds, and Grounds for Play: Play v. Theater v. Realism in a Touring Children's Version of King Lear
231(8)
John Barnes
Presenting Shakespeare's Life and Times for Young People: An Outline Using Midsummer Night's Dream and Susan Cooper's King of Shadows
239(13)
Tiffany A. Conroy
Understanding Texts and Contexts: Teaching Shakespeare to Future High School Teachers
252(8)
Pamela J. Benson
Redistributing the Riches: Shakespearean Adaptation in Moss Gown and Mama Day
260(9)
Caroline McManus
Learning by Playing: Performance Games and the Teaching of Shakespeare
269(10)
Greg Maillet
Reimagining Shakespeare through Film
279(10)
Gregory Colon Semenza
Performing Pedagogy
289(9)
Edward L. Rocklin
Bibliography 298(7)
Contributors 305(6)
Permissions 311(1)
Index 312

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