Shakespeare, Our Personal Trainer: Teaching Shakespeare in Secondary Schools

Table of Contents
Foreword • Richard Dutton
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Illustrations
Introduction: Why Shakespeare, Our Personal Trainer • Margaret Rose and Cristina Paravano
Part I – “Our bodies are our gardens”: Shakespeare and Wellness
	1. Gardens in Shakespeare’s Day and in the 21st Century: Do We Really Need Them? • Margaret Rose
	2. Walking with Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet’s Garden • Angela Ronchi
	3. Overeating and Other Enemies in Today’s World: Can Shakespeare Be a Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle in the 21st Century? • Roberta Situlin
	4. Remote Characters and Illness in Our Digital Age: Shakespeare’s Drama as Treatment of Psychological Distress during Growth from Childhood to Adolescence • Paolo Giovannelli
	5. Designing Shakespeare: Teaching Students to Adapt, Recycle and Make Low-cost Costumes • Susan Marshall
	6. Teaching Idioms through Shakespeare: The Case of Food and Drink • Laura Pinnavaia
Part II – “Strange shapes”: New Languages in the Classroom
	7. Antony and Cleopatra: The Wider Scene • Francesca Orestano
	8. Teaching Shakespeare through Dystopian Fiction: Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games and Lauren Oliver’s Delirium • Cristina Paravano
	9. Splash! A Dive (for Beginners) into Shakespeare’s Plays through the Language of Comics • Mauro Gentile
	10. Shakespeare’s or Banksy’s? Looking for Hamlet in Street Art • Mariacristina Cavecchi
	11. Shakespearean Musicscapes: Notes for Approaching Shakespeare through Music • Marco Canani
	12. Images and Words: The Tempest, Film and the Classroom • Anna Anselmo
Contributors
Index of Names