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Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance

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ISBN-10: 0873523733

ISBN-13: 9780873523738

Edition: 1999

Authors: Milla C. Riggio, Thomas L. Berger, David Bevington, Stephen Orgel

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Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Publication date: 1/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 503
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Milla Cozart Riggio is professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Theory and History
Shakespeare in Performance: Theory in Practice and Practice in Theory
Performance Is More Than an "Approach" to Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary and Today's Classroom
Original Staging and the Shakespeare Classroom
Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women?
Romeo and Juliet on the Stage: "It Is a Kind of History"
Re-wrighting Shakespeare: A Conversation with Richard Schechner
Teaching Strategies
Listening for the Playwright's Voice: Rehearsing through Class Discussion the "Kill Claudio" Episode
Playing the Action: Building an Interpretation from the Scene Up
Working in Workshops
Improvisational Techniques for the Literature Teacher
The (Play) Text's the Thing: Teaching the Blinding of Gloucester in King Lear
Introducing Stage History to Students
Exemplary Courses
Teaching Shakespeare: The Participatory Approach
Reading Power: Classroom Acting as Close Reading
The Shakespeare Seminar as Pedagogical Entertainment
Team Teaching Shakespeare: Breaking Barriers to the Bard
Shakespeare in the City
On Your Imaginary Forces Work: Shakespeare in Practice
Performing Shakespeare: The Outward Bound of the English Department
Writing about Performance, Writing as Performance
Films and Electronic Resources
Bringing Performances into Classrooms through Multiple Media
Cinematic Elements in Shakespearean Film: A Glossary
Shakespeare and Image Theater: Henry V
Digital Shakespeare: A Retrospective and Update
The Electronic Archive in the Classroom: Multimedia Shakespeare at MIT
Playing in Cyberspace: Experiments in Computer-Mediated Shakespeare
Annotated Guides
A Guide to American Shakespeare Companies and Festivals with Academic Affiliations
Annotated Guide to Classroom Editions of Shakespeare
Selected Film and Television Resources
Shakespeare on Video
Notes on Contributors
Works Cited
Index of Names
Index of Shakespeare's Plays