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For early high school, would you consider Moonlighting's condensed adaptation of Shrew to be a viable first exposure? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Rec
by ahazred8ta 1y ago
For early high school, would you consider Moonlighting's condensed adaptation of Shrew to be a viable first exposure?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MoonlightingS3E07 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MoonlightingS3E...
- defrost 1y agojfengel might disagree, but if you absolutely must watch a Shrew variation made for TV at least give the BBC's Shakespeare ReTold version a gander: https://booktalkandmore.blogspot.com/2011/03/shakespeare-retold-taming-of-shrew.html https://booktalkandmore.blogspot.com/2011/03/shakespeare-ret... Everything comes together brilliantly in this adaptation, which remains remarkably - and surprisingly, perhaps - true to the source material, ...
- eszed 1y agoI haven't seen this, but going by the linked summary, I'd say 'no'. I'm sure it's very clever, but pastiches depend upon familiarity with the source material to work. They also - this is why they're fun! - change the source in material ways, as it seems this does. Students need to experience plays the way they're meant to be experienced: as plays. Live events, with human interaction at their heart. Anything else is... Missing the point.