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Approaches to teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / edited by Maurice Hunt.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2831 .A89 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- 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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