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Title:
"Remembering Shakespeare's Sonnets in Lucy Negro, Redux"
Author:
MacDonald, Joyce Green.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2024
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Survey 77 (2024): 1–11.
Annotation:

Traces how Caroline Randall Williams's book of poetry, Lucy Negro, Redux (q.v.) "dislocates time, blurs place, and blends multiple speakers" as it imagines a persona for Shakespeare's dark lady.

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Title:
"Pedagogy in Performance: Discovering Shakespeare through the MIT Merchant Module"
Author:
Zimmer, Mary Erica.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2024
Annotation:

Outlines an online module for teaching The Merchant of Venice that draws on early promptbooks and Karen Conrood's production of The Merchant in Venice (q.v.).

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Title:
"Implementing the Do-It-Yourself First Folio: From Concept Model to Pedagogical Tool"
Author:
Brown, Meaghan; Niles, Rebecca; Redick, Stacey.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2024
Annotation:

Describes the Folger Shakespeare Library's "Do-It-Yourself (DIY) First Folio," an online interactive resource that teaches students about the printing of the folio.

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Title:
"Teaching Digital Shakespeare"
Author:
Estill, Laura.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2024
Annotation:

Outlines an assignment for a Shakespeare class where students teach each other about the purpose, scope, and affordances of digital projects designed for the study of Shakespeare. Includes sample assignment instructions.

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Title:
"Jesuit Drama Crossing the Channel: Jakob Gretser and William Shakespeare's Pericles and Timon of Athens"
Author:
Fielitz, Sonja.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2019
Annotation:

Describes Pericles being staged and read by Catholics on the continent. Positions Jakob Gretser’s school play, Timon comoedia imitata ex dialogo Luciani qui Timon inscribitur [1584], itself adapted from Lucian's Greek Timon, as a possible source for Shakespeare's Timon of Athens

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Title:
Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History
Author:
Carroll, William C..
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2022. xvi + 267
Annotation:

Considers how adaptations of Macbeth attempt to "to clarify or explain its supposed lacunae,

lapses, and inconsistencies," focusing on how the characters of Duncan, Fleance, and Lady Macbeth are portrayed. Explores how Macbeth is adapted in novels, film and television, music, and even tchotchkes, suggesting that the play's interpretation has changed from a "valorization of hierarchical power" to "a critique of totalitarian rule."

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