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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.
List 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
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Naomi Miller
Summary
This is a collection of original essays about how Shakespeare and 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.
