Teaching Shakespeare

This contemplative anthology offers personal essays by noted scholars on a range of topics related to the teaching of Shakespeare. Ideal for the graduate student, it addresses many of the primary concerns and rewards of the discipline, drawing on the variety of special skills, interests, and experiences brought to the classroom by the volume's distinguished contributors. * Offers insight into the classroom practices, special skills, interests, and experiences of some of the most distinguished Shakespearean scholars in the field * Features essayists who reflect on the experience of teaching Shakespeare at university level; how they approach the subject and why they think it is important to teach * Provides anecdotal and practical advice for any reader interested in teaching the works of Shakespeare * Engagingly candid

ISBN 1405140461   Pages 256 ISBN13 9781405140461 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 408 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Published in Chicester Format Paperback   Height (mm) 231 Publication date 05 Sep 2008   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2008000138   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 822.33   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Introduction		Passing it On by Skip Shand		1
Pt. I		Mentoring
1		Teaching Shakespeare, Mentoring Shakespeareans by Jean E. Howard		11
Pt. II		Text
2		Planned Obsolescence or Working at the Words by Russ McDonald		25
3		The Words: Teacher as Editor, Editor as Teacher by David Bevington		43
4		Questions That Have No Answers by Alexander Leggatt		61
Pt. III		Text and Performance
5		Teaching the Script by Anthony B. Dawson		73
6		A Test of Character by Miriam Gilbert		91
7		The Last Shakespeare Picture Show or Going to the Barricades by Barbara Hodgdon		105
Pt. IV		Contexts (Institutional, Cultural, Historical)
8		Dancing and Thinking: Teaching "Shakespeare" in the Twenty-First Century by Kate McLuskie		121
9		Communicating Differences: Gender, Feminism, and Queer Studies in the Changing Shakespeare Curriculum by Ramona Wray		142
10		Teaching Shakespeare and Race in the New Empire by Ania Loomba		160
11		Learning to Listen: Shakespeare and Contexts by Frances E. Dolan		181
12		Divided by a Common Bard? Learning and Teaching Shakespeare in the UK and USA by Richard Dutton		196
Pt. V		And in Conclusion ...
13		Playing Hercules or Laboring in My Vocation by Carol Chillington Rutter		215
		Index		232

"The focus of this often inspiring book is the teaching of Shakespeare at uni­versity level. It had never occurred to me that anything as sophisticated as a pedagogy might actually underpin university teaching." (Early Theatre, 2010)

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