- 304 pages
- English
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Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults
About this book
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.
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Index
Aagesen, C., 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 248, 249
Aaron the Moor, 104
Aboriginal songlines, 229 n. 5
Abridgement, see Condensation/abridgement
Acocella, Joan, 163, 169
ACTIO, 8, 269, 276 n. 6
Action, see Plot/story/action
Actors, see also Productions and staging
children’s roles, 5, 85–96
Elizabethan, 27–28
female roles, 26, 245
imagining, 81, 83
in “The Play’s the Thing,” 271, 274
Adaptation process, see also specific works
politics of, 6–7, 180–188, 224
role of adaptor, 130
stages of
analysis, 63–65
background, 56–60
condensing, 65–66
immersion, 61–63
re-visioning, 65
selection, 60–61
Adaptations, 4, 5; see also specific works
for children
Moss Gown and Mama Day, 260–268
teaching future high school teachers, 257–258
for early childhood education, 224
eighteenth century, 8
illustrated books, 125–126; see also Illustrated and picture books
novels, see Novels
Admiral’s Company, 271
Adults, essay collections for, 9
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 99
Advertising, Shakespearean allusions, 261
African American retellings, Moss Gown and Mamma Day, 260–268
Agas map of London, 255
Alice (Henry V), 247
Alice in Wonderland, 5, 98
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, 111, 113f
Aliens and otherness, 5; see also Magical and supernatural elements
allusions to in Mama Day, 266
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- “What’s in a Name?”: Collaborating with Shakespeare at the Millennium
- I. Biography, Adaptation, and Fictionalization
- II. Interpretation and Critique
- III. Pedagogy and Performance
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Permissions
- Index