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Shakespeare, Our Personal Trainer

Teaching Shakespeare in Secondary Schools

Edited By: Cristina Paravano, Margaret Rose, Roberta Situlin

£61.99

Experts from literary, theatre, and scientific fields present Shakespeare’s works from different perspectives. Deploying a range of filters such as nutrition, comics, and street art, they show how the Bard can still be relevant to our lives in the 21st century.

This collection of essays is multidisciplinary and wide-ranging. The authors, literary and theatre specialists, scientists from various fields, and a psychiatrist, present Shakespeare’s works from very different perspectives, highlighting a new outlook on the current ways of tackling Shakespeare. Teachers of English all over Europe will find this book an eclectic tool which allows them to present Shakespeare in a challengingly vibrant way. To explore Shakespeare’s plays, the authors deploy a range of filters such as nutrition, plant sciences, geography, art history, costume design, music, comics and street art. They show how the Bard can still be relevant to our lives in the 21st century.

Margaret Rose is an Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Italy, where she teaches British theatre studies and performance. She has published widely in the areas of contemporary British theatre, theatre translation and Shakespeare in performance. A cluster of her stage plays rewrite Shakespeare, with a focus on environmental and nutritional themes.

Cristina Paravano has a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Milan, Italy. She completed her PhD in 2011 with a dissertation on the theatre of the Caroline playwright Richard Brome. She has published in the areas of early modern drama, modern-contemporary theatre studies, source studies and young adult fiction.

Roberta Situlin is a medical doctor, specialist in nutritional science and a cognitive behaviour psychotherapist. She is also an Assistant Professor in Dietetic and Nutrition in the Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences at the University of Trieste, Italy. Her areas of interest are nutrition, obesity, eating disorders, nutrition education and food culture.

Anna Anselmo, Marco Canani, Mariacristina Cavecchi, Richard Duttom, Mauro Gentile, Paolo Giovannecci, Susan Marshall, Laura Pinnavaia, Angela Ronchi, Margaret Rose, Roberta Situlin