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Modern Shakespeare. A Teacher’s Guide to Making Shakespeare Relevant and Interesting to the Contemporary Student. Modern shakespeare. There are many ways to make Shakespeare relevant and interesting to the modern student:
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Modern Shakespeare A Teacher’s Guide to Making Shakespeare Relevant and Interesting to the Contemporary Student
Modern shakespeare • There are many ways to make Shakespeare relevant and interesting to the modern student: • Use the internet! It’s filled with podcasts, blogs, cartoons, clips from modern film adaptations, etc., and your students will enjoy any online excursions during class. • Find comic adaptations, such as comic books, skits, and parodies. • Follow the text with a modern film adaptation. • Use graphs, maps, drawings, anything in your repertoire that will help illustrate Shakespeare’s complicated relationships and plot lines more clearly. • This presentation will give you plenty of resources, online and off, so get ready!
Shakespeare in hollywood • Andy Fickman’sShe’s the Man (Twelfth Night) • Jerome Robbins’s and Robert Wise’s West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet) • Tim Blake Nelson’s O (Othello) • Michael Hoffman’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) • Woody Allen’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream – this one may be a bit racy for high school!) • Kelly Asbury’s Gnomeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
Shakespeare in Hollywood • Modern Shakespeare Film Adaptations on IMDB • Fred McLeod Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet (The Tempest) • Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books (The Tempest) • Gil Junger’s10 Things I Hate about You (Taming of the Shrew) • BazLuhrmann’sRomeo + Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) • Billy Morissete’sScotland, PA (MacBeth)
Bardcasts • Bardcast's Blogspot • BBC's Podcasts • Play Shakespeare • Oxford's Podcasts • American Shakespeare Podcasts
Online shakespeare • The Shakespeare Blog • Blogging Shakespeare • Modern Shakespeare Intro • Shakespeare's iPad • Shakespeare Games
Understanding shakespeare • Shakespeare Comic Books – A fun way to read modern interpretations of Shakespeare. • Concept Maps – Use these to help your students map out relationships between characters or to understand complex plot lines.
My information • If you have any questions or concerns, would like to view my personal library of modern film adaptations, or would like me to observe your Modern Shakespeare teaching, please contact me: • 770.289.3084 • jfindla1@my.westga.edu • Room 318
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