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Authors: Naomi Miller, Jack Zipes
ISBN-13: 9780415938563, ISBN-10: 0415938562
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Naomi Miller

Book Synopsis

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.

	Series Editor's Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	"What's in a Name?": Collaborating with Shakespeare at the Millennium	1
I	Biography, Adaptation, and Fictionalization	11
1	In Love with Shakespeare	13
2	The Story Behind the Man Behind the Plays	22
3	Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!	29
4	"This is Young William": Shakespeare and the Cumulative Tale	39
5	"All the Colours of the Wind": Shakespeare and the Primary Student	44
6	Nutshells and Infinite Space: Stages of Adaptation	56
7	Puck's Gift	67
8	Shakespeare Speaks: Getting the Language Right	74
9	The Players, the Playmaker, and Us	81
II	Interpretation and Critique	87
10	Staging Shakespeare's Children	89
11	Canning the Classic: Race and Ethnicity in the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare	98
12	Alice Reads Shakespeare: Charles Dodgson and the Girl's Shakespeare Project	107
13	Strutting and Fretting on the Page: Representing Shakespeare's Theater in Illustrated Books	120
14	Mediating the Supernatural in Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children: Three Unique Productions through Text and Illustration	129
15	"The Play's the Thing": Genre and Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children	138
16	Promoting the Original: Perspectives on Balancing Authenticity and Creativity in Adaptations of The Tempest	147
17	First One I and Then the Other: Identity and Intertexuality in Shakespeare's Caliban and Covington's Lizard	153
18	Harry Potter and the Shakespearean Allusion	162
19	Playing with Shakespeare: Making Worlds from Words	171
20	Descending Shakespeare: Toward a Theory of Adaptation for Children	180
III	Pedagogy and Performance	191
21	The Bard for Babies: Shakespeare, Bettelheim, and the Reggio Emilia Model of Early Childhood Education	193
22	Visions of Shakespeare in a Montessori Classroom	201
23	Shakespeare Steps Out: The Primacy of Language in Inner-City Classrooms	207
24	"Your Play Needs No Excuse": Shakespeare and Language Development in Children	217
25	Players, Playgrounds, and Grounds for Play: Play v. Theater v. Realism in a Touring Children's Version of King Lear	231
26	Presenting Shakespeare's Life and Times for Young People: An Outline Using Midsummer Night's Dream and Susan Cooper's King of Shadows	239
27	Understanding Texts and Contexts: Teaching Shakespeare to Future High School Teachers	252
28	Redistributing the Riches: Shakespearean Adaptation in Moss Gown and Mama Day	260
29	Learning by Playing: Performance Games and the Teaching of Shakespeare	269
30	Reimagining Shakespeare through Film	279
31	Performing Pedagogy	289
	Bibliography	298
	Contributors	305
	Permissions	311
	Index	312

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