![]() ![]() De Berner is also pursuing a minor in Indigenous Studies. Stacy de Berner, an English and Cultural Studies student in her fourth year who took the class, worked with Gough to create the pressbook, first working on the project over the summer of 2021 in the Indigenous Undergraduate Summer Research Scholars (IUSRS) program. Shakespeare and/as Adaptation: Models to Inspire and Embolden Students’ Creative and Critical Engagement is an e-book built on Pressbooks, an open-source online platform that, among other functions, allows academic authors and publishers to create, adapt and share materials such as digital textbooks and other resources. ![]() It’s that dual role that gets explored in Melinda Gough’s second-year Shakespeare class, “Shakespeare and/as Adaptation,” and is the topic of a new resource created by Gough and her students that has recently become available on eCampus Ontario. From West Side Story to The Lion King, and from Toni Morrison’s Desdemona to Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool, Shakespeare’s works have been adapted for a modern audience in a range of genres. In his lifetime, Shakespeare was a borrower, lifting plots, characters and phrases from contemporary and historic sources as varied as Boccaccio, Holinshed and Plutarch.įour hundred years later, the borrower has become the borrowed. ![]() Part-Time Studies & Continuing Education.
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