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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Scholarly Resources

In my search to understand how Shakespeare is adapted for young adults, I need to focus more on the scholarly side of things, so I went to the library and checked out a couple cool books that I plan to peruse.

The first book analyzes how Shakespeare appears in young adult literature today, giving lists of books that have Shakespearean themes as well as making direct comparisons of YA texts to the original plays.
Isaac, Megan Lynn. Heirs to Shakespeare: Reinventing the Bard in Young Adult Literature. Portsmouth: Boynton, 2000. 
The second book discusses children and young adults as a new audience for Shakespeare and how Shakespeare has been modified to help children understand and appreciate the Bard. I'm especially excited for the chapters "Playing with Shakespeare: Making Worlds from Words" and "Harry Potter and the Shakespearean Allusion."
Miller, Naomi J. Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults. New York: Routledge, 2003. 
Also, I didn't check this book out, but it looked like it might be useful to Claire. It has multiple articles about different aspects of teaching Shakespeare; the article that caught my eye was about using Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War to ease teenagers into a critical approach of Macbeth.
Davis, James E. Teaching Shakespeare Today: Practical Approaches and Productive Strategies. 1993. Library Catalog: PR 2987 .T37
Posted by Jessica Vavrinec at 6:23 PM
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Rebecca R 43p · 733 weeks ago

Cool. Maybe I should spend a bit more time looking for scholarly help to analyze how Shakespeare affects popular culture (it's a lot easier to find instances than to find things to say about them). This gives me some hope that I'll find something useful.

I hope these books help you out.
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johnckendrick 30p · 733 weeks ago

I feel like all three of us (Rebecca, Jessica and myself) have similar focus topics: generally, modern day Shakespeare. I am focusing on modern allusions to Shakespeare's work, right now specifically in William Faulkner's works. I am going to start following bot of y'all a little more and see if we can't help each other out. Good Luck!
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Janelle McCune 39p · 733 weeks ago

Woah! That's what I said when I saw all the sources you found, and they're all very applicable to your topic. This is a great post. It shows your research, and you even found a book to help someone else's topic. Good job and good luck with your research!
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clairehm07 37p · 733 weeks ago

Jessica, thanks for the shout-out! I am totally going to look that article up! I am going to do a book review of "Romeo and Juliet, Together (And Alive!) At Last!" soon, so maybe you will like looking at it if you haven't read that one.

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