MASH-UP: More Monster + Classic Lit Mash-upsMash-ups
Most of you read the old post about the bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. You might know that this publisher has continued the series with Porter Grand's Little Women and Werewolves - remixing the classic novel with a wolfish twist.
A lot of these are being published by Quirk Classics whose mission is "To enhance classic novels with pop culture phenomena."
Additionally, you can also read the monster mash-ups:
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim: Mark Twain's Classic with Crazy Zombie Goodness
The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies
Vampire Darcy's Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
The Undead World of Oz: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Complete with Zombies and Monsters
Mansfield Park and Mummies: Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights
It looks like the trend will soon bleed (lots of blood) over to history starting with
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Check out the sample photos at the Amazon page for this book, hysterical!!
But all these links are a warm up to a book you can easily use in your teaching of Shakespeare called
Zombie Notes: A Study Guide to the Best in Undead Literary Classics.
Not only is this a fun gift book for your English teaching friends, but the short "zombified" Spark Note parodies are great supplementary, short reads for students in the middle of classic lit.
A summary from the back cover:
While scores of English teachers around the world ramble on about motifs, iambic pentameter, and deus ex machina, hordes of brain-swilling zombies and neck-chomping vampires are invading the major works of the world’s greatest authors!
Now, Melville's infamous creature of the deep is actually a zombie whale. And while Will Shakespeare’s rhyme scheme ties tongues in knots, Hamlet’s uncle has become a villainous vampire in royal robes. That sexy beast Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter? He’s even sexier and beastlier . . . now that he’s a werewolf.
Zombie Notes will quickly bring you up to speed on what's lurking in the literary canon. A study guide to literature's most famous scenes of love, heroism, brain letting, and countlessdecapitations, it is sure to reanimate your passion for the Great Books.
Hope you feel ALIVE and ready to revisit the classics with your students...
A lot of these are being published by Quirk Classics whose mission is "To enhance classic novels with pop culture phenomena."
Additionally, you can also read the monster mash-ups:
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim: Mark Twain's Classic with Crazy Zombie Goodness
The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies
Vampire Darcy's Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
The Undead World of Oz: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Complete with Zombies and Monsters
Mansfield Park and Mummies: Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights
It looks like the trend will soon bleed (lots of blood) over to history starting with
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Check out the sample photos at the Amazon page for this book, hysterical!!
But all these links are a warm up to a book you can easily use in your teaching of Shakespeare called
Zombie Notes: A Study Guide to the Best in Undead Literary Classics.
Not only is this a fun gift book for your English teaching friends, but the short "zombified" Spark Note parodies are great supplementary, short reads for students in the middle of classic lit.
A summary from the back cover:
While scores of English teachers around the world ramble on about motifs, iambic pentameter, and deus ex machina, hordes of brain-swilling zombies and neck-chomping vampires are invading the major works of the world’s greatest authors!
Now, Melville's infamous creature of the deep is actually a zombie whale. And while Will Shakespeare’s rhyme scheme ties tongues in knots, Hamlet’s uncle has become a villainous vampire in royal robes. That sexy beast Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter? He’s even sexier and beastlier . . . now that he’s a werewolf.
Zombie Notes will quickly bring you up to speed on what's lurking in the literary canon. A study guide to literature's most famous scenes of love, heroism, brain letting, and countlessdecapitations, it is sure to reanimate your passion for the Great Books.
Hope you feel ALIVE and ready to revisit the classics with your students...
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