WELCOME TO SHAKESPEARE AND POPULAR MUSIC
WEBSITE GOAL:
The Shakespeare and Popular Music website is a collaborative research project that explores and documents Shakespeare's work in relation to popular music and song. Thus far an underdeveloped area of research about the Bard, this project takes its starting point from two methodological considerations: Popular Music in Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Popular Music. Intended for Shakespearean researchers, instructors, students, and people with a general general interest in the topic this website includes learning, teaching, multimedia, and research resources to address three main areas: | PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS:
As well as wishing to facilitate further research on Shakespeare and Popular Music, this website is also designed to promote popular music as a pedagogical tool when studying Shakespeare. Popular music offers accessible, interesting, and pedagogically useful entry points for students beginning their study of Shakespeare's works.
This website, then, offers multiple formal lesson plans for educators to adapt to their classrooms as appropriate. These lesson plans are based on the Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum Guidelines and include lesson plans for students at the junior and intermediate levels of study.
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Acknowledgments: This site was created in the Spring of 2010 by Siscoe Boschman (Shakespeare on Broadway), Vanessa Page (Shakespeare and Film), Jennifer Schamehorn (Shakespeare and Hey Nonny Nonny), and Janet Williams (Shakespeare and Dance-Under Construction) for an MA project at the University of Guelph in the School of English and Theatre Studies (SETS). They would like to thank their classmates and Professor Daniel Fischlin of ENGL 6991/THST 6230 Performance and Difference: Theorizing Intercultural Adaptations of Shakespeare for their encouragement and support.
Disclaimer: This site has been designed with only non-commercial, academic uses in mind. Although every effort has been made to secure permission for materials uploaded on the site, in some circumstances we have been unable to locate copyright holders. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this website please contact Daniel Fischlin for more information.
