Introduction: pairing and teaching Shakespeare with young adult literature / Victor Malo-Juvera and Paula Greathouse
1 Engaging the classics through culturally relevant pedagogy: reading Jacqueline Woodson's If You Come Softly as complement to Romeo and Juliet / Susan Groenke
2 Betrayal, brotherhood, and belonging: language and power in Julius Caesar and The Chocolate War / Melanie Hundley and Sarah K. Burriss
3 Revenge, mental health, and suicide: pairing Shakespeare's Hamlet and Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock / Joseph P. Haughey
4 Reading Hamlet and Monster to study identity / Amy Connelly Banks and Chris Crowe
5 What is the price of ambition? teaching Macbeth with On the Come Up / Jen McConnel
6 Using All American Boys to contextualize Othello: an exploration in alterity / Jennifer S. Dail and Michelle B. Goodsite
7 Othello and My Friend Dahmer: examining the beast within / Lisa Scherff
8 Monsters matter: reimagining Caliban using monster theory / Laura Bolf-Beliveau
9 Shakespeare versus the Homosapien agenda: exploring gender in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Simon vs. The Homosapien Agenda / Pauline Skowron Schmidt and Matthew Kruger-Ross
10 Secrets and spies: E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing / Megan Lynn Isaac
11 To write or not to write
that's the question / Bryan Ripley Crandall
Index of Shakespeare and young adult literature
