Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century

by Salomone, Ronald E.; Davis, James E.

• ISBN13: 9780821412039
• ISBN10: 0821412035
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(3)
Acknowledgments	xiv
I. The Classroom: Language and Writing	3	(32)
1 The Writing Assignment: The Basic Question	3	(8)
J. L. STYAN Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2 Paraphrasing Shakespeare	11	(7)
WILLIAM T. LISTON Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
3 Role-Playing: Julius Caesar	18	(7)
MARY T. CHRISTEL
CHRISTINE HECKEL-OLIVER Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois
4 Writing Down, Speaking Up, Acting Out, and Clowning Around in the Shakespeare Classroom	25	(10)
JAMES R. ANDREAS Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
II. Performance In and Out of Class	35	(46)
5 Shakespeare in Production	35	(8)
MARY Z. MAHER University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
6 Teaching the Sonnets with Performance Techniques	43	(7)
ROBERT B. PIERCE Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
7 Using Playgrounding to Teach Hamlet	50	(7)
FRANCES L. HELPHINSTINE Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky
8 Professional Theater People and English Teachers: Working Together to Teach Shakespeare	57	(8)
MICHAEL FLACHMANN California State University, Bakersfield, California
9 Mirrors, Sculptures, Machines, and Masks: Theater Improvisation Games	65	(16)
MARGO A. FIGGINS University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
III. Approaches In and Out of Literary Theory	81	(58)
10 Transhistoricizing Much Ado About Nothing: Finding a Place for Shakespeare's Work in the Postmodern World	81	(15)
PAUL SKREBELS University of South Australia, Magill, South Australia
11 Making Sense of Shakespeare: A Reader-Based Response	96	(8)
CHARLES H. FREY University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
12 Textual Studies and Teaching Shakespeare	104	(8)
C. W. GRIFFIN Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
13 Team-Teaching Shakespeare in an Interdisciplinary Context	112	(8)
KATHY M. HOWLETT Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
14 An Inquiry-Based Approach	120	(7)
MARIE A. PLASSE Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
15 A Whole-Language Approach to A Midsummer Night's Dream	127	(12)
JOHN WILSON SWOPE University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
IV. Beyond Traditional Settings and Approaches	139	(54)
16 "So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion": Shakespeare in the Heterogeneous Classroom	139	(8)
MICHAEL W. SHURGOT South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, Washington
17 Building Shakespearean Worlds in the Everyday Classroom	147	(7)
CHRISTINE D. WARNER The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
18 Enhancing Response to Romeo and Juliet	154	(12)
LARRY R. JOHANNESSEN Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois
19 Teaching King Lear	166	(6)
MICHAEL J. COLLINS Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
20 Images of Hamlet in the Undergraduate Classroom	172	(5)
LOREEN L. GIESE Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
21 What Happens in the Mousetrap: Versions of Hamlet	177	(5)
ROBERT CARL JOHNSON Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
22 Problems with Othello in the High School Classroom	182	(11)
LEILA CHRISTENBURY Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
V. Beyond the Text	193	(54)
23 Uses of Media in Teaching Shakespeare	193	(8)
H. R. COURSEN University of Maine, Augusta, Maine
24 Teaching Shakespeare through Film	201	(7)
LINDA KISSLER Westmoreland County Community College, Youngwood, Pennsylvania
25 When Images Replace Words: Shakespeare, Russian Animation, and the Culture of Television	208	(7)
MARTHA TUCK ROZETT University at Albany--State University of New York, Albany, New York
26 Different Daggers: Versions of Macbeth	215	(7)
HARRY BRENT Baruch College--City University of New York, New York, New York
27 "Our Lofty Scene": Teaching Modern Film Versions of Julius Caesar	222	(10)
SAMUEL CROWL Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
28 Shakespeare Festivals: Materials for the Classroom	232	(15)
EVA B. McMANUS Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio
VI. Into the Future	247
29 Making Media Matter in the Shakespeare Classroom	247	(8)
SHARON A. BEEHLER Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
30 Computers in the Secondary Classroom	255	(7)
WILLIAM J. GATHERGOOD Reynoldsburg High School, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
31 Beyond the Gee Whiz Stage: Computer Technology, the World Wide Web, and Shakespeare	262	(9)
ROY FLANNAGAN Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
32 The High-Tech Classroom: Shakespeare in the Age of Multimedia, Computer Networks, and Virtual Space	271
JAMES P. SAEGER Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York