Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults

by Naomi Miller

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415938563
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/22/2002
Series:	Children's Literature and Culture , #25
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

'What's in a Name?': Collaborating with Shakespeare at the Millenium, Naomi Miller; BIOGRAPHY, ADAPTATION, AND FICTIONALIZATION; In Love with Shakespeare, Aliki; The Story Behind the Man Behind the Plays, Diane Stanley; Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!, Marcia Williams;'This is Young William': Shakespeare and the Cumulative Tale, Rebecca Piat Davidson; All the Colors of the Wind: Shakespeare and the Primary Student, Lois Burdett; Nutshells and Infinite Space; Stages of Adaptation, Bruce Coville; Puck's Gift, or the Way of the Trickster, Sophie Masson; Shakespeare Speaks: Getting the Language Right, Gary Blackwood; The Players, the Playmaker, and Us, J.B. Cheaney; INTERPRETATION AND CRITIQUE; Staging Shakespeare's Children, Mark H. Lawhorn; Canning the Classic: Race and Ethnicity in the Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare ,James Andreas; Alice Reads Shakespeare: Charles Dodgson and the Girl's Shakespeare Project, Georgiana Ziegler; Strutting and Fretting on the Page: Representing Shakespeare's Theater in Illustrated Books, Megan Lynn Isaac; Mediating the Supernatural in Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children, Douglas King; The Play's the Thing: Genre and Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children, Alison H. Prindle; Promoting the Original: Perspectives on Balancing Authenticity and Creativity in Adaptations of The Tempest , Amy Mathur; first one i then the other: Identity and Intertexuality in Shakespeare's Caliban and Covington's Lizard, Cynthia Perantoni; Harry Potter and the Shakespearean Allusion, Miranda Johnson-Haddad; Playing With Shakespeare: Making Worlds from Words, Jennifer Lee Carrell; Descending on Shakespeare: Toward a Theory of Adaptation for Children, Howard Marchitello; PEDAGOGY AND PERFORMANCE; The Bard for Babies: Shakespeare, Bettleheim, and the reggio Emilia Model of Early Childhood Education, Sheila Cavanagh; Visions of Shalespeare in a Montessori Classroom, Regine Ebner; Shakespeare Steps Out: The Primacy of Language in Inner-City Classrooms, Janet Field-Pickering; Your play Needs No Excuse: Shakespeare and Language Development in Children, Kristen Olson; PLayers, Playgrounds, and Grounds for Play: Play v. Theater v. Realism in a Touring Children's Version of King Lear , John Barnes; Presenting Shakespeare's Life and Times for young People: An Outline, Tiffany Rasovic; Understanding Texts and Contexts: Teaching Shakespeare to Future high School Teachers, Pamela A. Benson; Redistributing the Riches: Shakespearean Adaptation in Moss Gown and Mama Day , Caroline McManus; Learning by Playing: Performance Games and the Teaching of Shakespeare, Gregory Maillet; Reimagining Shakespeare Through Film, Gregory Colon Semenza; Performing Pedagogy, Edward Rocklin; Bibliogrpahy; List of Contributors

Editorial Reviews

"...a rich collection of informative essays on how Shakespeare can be and has been "reimagined" for children. This collection has something for everyone interested in the adaptation of Shakespeare for children, whether a writer, an academic or a practitioner. Highly recommended." — A.F. Winstead, Our Lady of the Lake UniversityChoice

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