Naomi Miller

Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Children's Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9780415803601
• ISBN-10: 0415803608
• Artikelnr.: 26487912

Autorenporträt

Naomi Miller

Inhaltsangabe

'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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'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

Rezensionen

"...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