Pedagogy Oct 2019

Visual Rhetoric as Performance

Anelise Farris

Abstract

This article examines the use of comic adaptations of Shakespeare in the college classroom. After theorizing the class offering based upon performance pedagogy and inclusive learning practices, the author describes her experience coteaching a Shakespeare class that used three Shakespeare plays in both their traditional and graphic format. The success of the course revealed that comic adaptations of Shakespeare plays offer an accessible, rewarding means of understanding Shakespeare’s plays as both texts to be read and works to be performed.

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Pedagogy
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2019-10-01
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10.1215/15314200-7615587
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