{"product_id":"liberating-shakespeare-9781350320253","title":"Liberating Shakespeare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Sexual bullying. Racial slurs and injustice. These are just some of the problems faced by today's young adults.  \u003ci\u003eLiberating Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how adaptations of Shakespeare's plays can be used to empower young audiences by addressing issues of oppression, trauma and resistance.  Showcasing a wide variety of approaches to understanding, adapting and teaching Shakespeare, this collection examines the significant number of Shakespeare adaptations targeting adolescent audiences in the past 25 years. It examines a wide variety of creative works made for and by young people that harness the power of Shakespeare to address some of the most pressing questions in contemporary culture  exploring themes of violence, race relations and intersectionality.   The contributors to this volume consider whether the representations of characters and situations in YA Shakespeare can function as empowering mod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements  Introduction: Taking Young Adult Shakespeare Seriously, \u003ci\u003eJennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e Section I: Trauma and Survival\u003c\/b\u003e  1.        Teaching \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet \u003c\/i\u003ein Plague Time: A Trauma-Informed Approach, \u003ci\u003eAriane Balizet (AddRan School of Liberal Arts, TCU, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 2.        Nothing\/Something: YA \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado\u003c\/i\u003e Novels in the World of Digital Shaming and Virtual Outcasts, \u003ci\u003eLaurie Osborne (Colby College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3.        'I will not be a frozen example, a statued monument': Self-Actualization After Trauma in\u003ci\u003e Pandosto\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eExit, Pursued by a Bear, Sara Morrison (William Jewell College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4.        Exposing Hate: Violence of Racialized Slurs in Young Adult Adaptations of Shakespeare, \u003ci\u003eCharlotte Spielman (Independent scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 5.        When Romeo and Juliet Fought the Texas Rangers: Race, Justice, and Appropriation in \u003ci\u003eShame the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e by Guadalupe García McCall, \u003ci\u003eJesus Montaño (Hope College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6.        Young Adults and the Position of Trauma in Adaptations of Shakespeare, \u003ci\u003eM. Tyler Sasser (University of Alabama, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection II: Empowerment and Education\u003c\/b\u003e  7.        \u003ci\u003eOphelia\u003c\/i\u003e: A New Hope, \u003ci\u003eNatalie Loper (University of Alabama, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8.        ‘You Should Be Women’: The Figure of the Witch in YA adaptations of Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eMacbeth, Melissa Johnson (Texas Christian University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 9.        Intersectionality in Aoibhean Sweeney’s \u003ci\u003eAmong Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking, Lawrence Manley (Yale University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 10.      ‘Hello, people of the Internet!’: \u003ci\u003eNothing Much to Do \u003c\/i\u003eand the Young Adult Creators and Communities of Vlog-Shakespeare, \u003ci\u003e Jane Wanninger (Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 11.      Emotion, Empathy, and the Internet: Transforming Shakespeare for Contemporary Teens, \u003ci\u003eJules Pigott (Screenwriter and director, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 12.      Promoting Companion Texts for Reading Shakespeare Plays: Future Teachers, Young Adult Literature, and Connecting Adolescents to \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet, Laura Turchi (Arizona State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   Afterword: Adaptation Studies and Interactive Pedagogies, \u003ci\u003eAlexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   Selected Bibliography   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738618081623,"sku":"9781350320253","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liberating-shakespeare-9781350320253","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}