Full Description
New approaches to teaching a familiar work
By the time they encounter Romeo and Juliet in the classroom, many students have already been exposed to various, and sometimes incongruous, manifestations of Shakespeare's work. This volume makes a virtue of students' familiarity with the preconceptions, anachronisms, and appropriations that shape experiences of the work, finding innovative pedagogical possibilities in the play's adaptations and in new technologies that spark students' creative responses.
The essays cover a wide area of concerns, such as marriage, gender, queer perspectives, and girlhood, and contributors embrace different ways of understanding the play, such as through dance, editing, and acting. The final essays focus on decolonizing the text by foregrounding both the role of race and economic inequality in the play and the remarkable confluence of Romeo and Juliet and Hispanic culture.
This volume discusses the following texts: Valeria Luiselli's "Shakespeare, New Mexico," James Lujan's Kino and Teresa, Guadalupe García McCall's Shame the Stars, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Taylor Swift's song "Love Story" is discussed in the volume, as are the following films: Alan Brown's Private Romeo, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, Carey Williams's R#J, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins's West Side Story, and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One: Materials
Editions
Contextual Readings
Film and Text Adaptations
Critical Readings
Pedagogical Resources
Part Two: Approaches
Introduction, by Joseph M. Ortiz
Age, Authority, Marriage
"Get Her Heart": Reading Romeo and Juliet through Early Modern Ideas of Marriage, by Robert Matz
Juliet's Age and Questioning Authority in Romeo and Juliet, by Peter C. Herman
Individualism and the Character Turn in Romeo and Juliet, by Meghan C. Andrews
Gender and Sexuality
An Intersectional Approach to Girls and Girlhoods in Shakespeare's Verona, by Ariane M. Balizet
Juliet and Girl Power, by Natalie K. Eschenbaum
Queering Romeo and Juliet with Film Adaptations, by Anthony Guy Patricia
Considering Genre
Rediscovering the Familiar: Comedy in Romeo and Juliet, by Stephanie Pietros
"Love at First Sonnet": Romeo and Juliet's Collaborative Sonnet in Context, by Joshua Reid
Textual and Performance Histories
Editing Romeo and Juliet in the General Education Shakespeare Course, by Rebecca Olson
Benvolio Must Die: Q1's "Conceited" Romeo and Juliet, by Sarah Neville
Teaching Romeo and Juliet with Cue Scripts, by Marguerite A. Tassi
The High School Classroom
Scene Variations: Romeo and Juliet in the High School Classroom, by Abbey Bachmann
So You Already "Know" Romeo and Juliet? How to Capitalize on Students' Familiarity with the Play, by Mary T. Christel
Intersections with Race Studies
Romeo and Juliet in a Course on Shakespeare and Race, by Maya Mathur
Dancing with the Queen of Sheba: Romeo and Juliet, Ballet, and Race Studies, by Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson and Julia Reinhard Lupton
Shakespeare and Latinidades
Not-So-Ancient Grudges: Grounding Romeo and Juliet in the Histories of the US-Mexico Borderlands, by Kathryn Vomero Santos
Erasing for Inclusion: Romeo and Juliet at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, by Jonathan Burton
Diversifying Fair Verona: Shakespeare in Multilingual Classrooms, by Robin Alfriend Kello and Rhonda Sharrah
Notes on Contributors
Survey Participants
Works Cited
