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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’s She’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’s 10 Things I Hate about You (Taming of the Shrew)
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
Billy Morissete’s Scotland, PA (MacBeth)
BARDCASTS
Bardcast's BlogspotBBC's PodcastsPlay ShakespeareOxford's PodcastsAmerican 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.
SAMPLE CONCEPT MAP
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• [email protected]• Room 318
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