Shakespeares Romeo & Juliet (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) - Hardcover

9780873527576: Shakespeares Romeo & Juliet (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873527577 ISBN 13: 9780873527576

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America, 2000

Offers imaginative strategies for teaching Romeo and Juliet in high school and college. Part I, Materials, reviews the most widely used anthologies of Shakespeare's plays and the many available editions of the play, as well as background materials for instructors and recommendations for student reading. Part II, Approaches, presents ideas for the classroom, showing how to teach the play in historical, social, and textual contexts or alongside other Shakespeare plays, and describing scenarios for teaching the play and its many adaptations. The editor is affiliated with Baylor University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author

Maurice Hunt, professor of English and head of the English department at Baylor University, has published Shakespeare's Romance of the Word (1990) and Shakespeare's Labored Art (1992) and edited three books, including Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Tempest and Other Late Romances (1992). He has also published eighty essays on topics in Shakespeare, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Spenser.

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