Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (second edition) (Approaches to Teaching World Literature #174)

By: Joseph M. Ortiz

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Synopsis: By the time they encounter Romeo and Juliet in the classroom, many students have already been exposed to various, and sometimes incongruous, manifestations of Shakespeare's work. This volume makes a virtue of students' familiarity with the preconceptions, anachronisms, and appropriations that shape experiences of the work, finding innovative pedagogical possibilities in the play's adaptations and in new technologies that spark students' creative responses.The essays cover a wide area of concerns, such as marriage, gender, queer perspectives, and girlhood, and contributors embrace different ways of understanding the play, such as through dance, editing, and acting. The final essays focus on decolonizing the text by foregrounding both the role of race and economic inequality in the play and the remarkable confluence of Romeo and Juliet and Hispanic culture.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 202 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781603296496
Related ISBNs:: 9781603296489
Publisher:: Modern Language Association of America
Date of Addition:: 06/28/24
Copyrighted By:: The Modern Language Association of America
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Education, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
Grade Levels:: Graduate Student
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Joseph M. Ortiz