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Approaches to teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / edited by Maurice Hunt.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hunt, Maurice, 1942-
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Approaches to teaching world literature ; 67.
Approaches to teaching world literature ; 67
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Physical Description:
vii, 219 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2000.
Summary:
Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.
Contents:
Part 1 Materials / Maurice Hunt
Complete Editions of Shakespeare 3
Single Editions 4
The Instructor's Library
Reference Works 6
Critical and Pedagogical Studies 6
Background Studies 11
Textual and Source Studies 12
Performance and Theater Studies 14
Visual Materials and Other Artistic Media 15
Required and Recommended Student Readings 17
Part 2 Approaches
Reading Strategies
Authority in Romeo and Juliet / Arthur F. Kinney 29
"I Love You Madly, I Love You to Death": Erotomania and Liebestod in Romeo and Juliet / Ivo Kamps 37
"Now Art Thou What Thou Art"; or, Being Sociable in Verona: Teaching Gender and Desire in Romeo and Juliet / Thomas Moisan 47
Teaching the Tragi-comedy of Romeo and Juliet / Douglas Bruster 59
Literary and Contemporary Contexts
Teaching Romeo and Juliet in an Introduction to Drama Course / Jennifer Low 69
Teaching Romeo and Juliet Historically / Dorothea Kehler 78
Teaching Romeo and Juliet with Troilus and Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra / Thomas H. Blackburn 85
Queer Romeo and Juliet: Teaching Early Modern "Sexuality" in Shakespeare's "Heterosexual" Tragedy / Nicholas F. Radel 91
Modern Contexts
"Who Wrote the Book of Love?": Teaching Romeo and Juliet with Early Rock Music / Cynthia Marshall 98
Teaching Romeo and Juliet as a Tragedy of the Generation Gap and of Teenage Suicide / Sara Munson Deats 108
Teaching Shakespeare's Bawdry: Orality, Literacy, and Censorship in Romeo and Juliet / James R. Andreas, Sr. 115
Character
Teaching Mothers in Romeo and Juliet: Lady Capulet, from Brooke to Luhrmann / Michael Basile 125
"My Ghostly Father": Teaching the Friar in Romeo and Juliet / Paul J. Voss 131
Loving Shakespeare's Lovers: Character Growth in Romeo and Juliet / Karl F. Zender 137
Language and Text
The Wild Goose Chase: Teaching Metaphor in Romeo and Juliet / Joseph A. Porter 144
Teaching the Books of the Play / Jill L. Levenson 153
Dramatic Technique and Performance Art
Provoking Thought: Teaching Romeo and Juliet through Dramatic Technique / James Hirsh 163
Textual License and Restraint: (Re) Enacting Stage History / Stephen M. Buhler 172
Other Artistic Media
Star-Crossed Generations: Three Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet / Robert F. Willson, Jr. 179
Teaching Musical and Balletic Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet; or, Romeo and Juliet, Thou Art Translated! / R. Alan Kimbrough 186.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0873527577
0873527585
OCLC:
44461966

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