{"product_id":"shakespeares-guide-to-hope-life-and-learning-9781487570521","title":"Shakespeares Guide to Hope Life and Learning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?\" Using this question as a starting point, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning\u003c\/i\u003e presents a conversation between four of Shakespeare’s most popular plays and our modern experience, and between teachers and learners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book analyzes \u003ci\u003eKing Lear, As You Like It, Henry V\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHamlet, \u003c\/i\u003erevealing how they help us to appreciate and responsibly interrogate the perspectives of others. Award-winning teachers Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray, and Jessica Riddell explore a diversity of genres – tragedy, history, and comedy – with distinct perspectives from their own lived experiences. They carry on lively conversations in the margins of each essay, mirroring the kind of open, ongoing, and collaborative thinking that Shakespeare inspires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is informed by ideas of social justice and transformation, articulated by such thinkers as Paulo Freire, Par\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgments    Prologue: Shakespeare, the Classroom, and Critical Hope   Part One: King Lear    Keep Falling, Alice: Rabbit Holes, Monkey Wrenches, and Critical Love in King Lear Jessica Riddell   Impossible Choices and Unbreakable Bonds in King Lear: Close Reading, Negative Capability, and Critical Empathy Shannon Murray   “Bless Thy Sweet Eyes, They Bleed”: The Ethics of Pedagogy and My Fear of Lear Lisa Dickson   Part Two: As You Like It    Learning as an Act of Becoming in As You Like It Jessica Riddell   “Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity”: Duke Senior’s Arden as a Hopeful Creation Shannon Murray   Something Wicked: Verse and Bodies in As You Like It 5.2 Lisa Dickson   Part Three: Henry V    Henry V: Prophecy, Hope-Speak, and Future-Speak Shannon Murray   Orators of Hope or Rhetors Gone Rogue? The Ambiguities of Persuasion in Henry V Jessica Riddell   “We Should Just F**k around with Some Text”: Henry V and the White Box Classroom Lisa Dickson   Part Four: Hamlet    Chasing Roosters on the Ramparts: Three Ways of Doing in Hamlet Lisa Dickson   Acknowledging the Complexity of Unknowing as an Act of Critical Hope in Hamlet Jessica Riddell   Wonder and Dust in a Hopeful Hamlet Shannon Murray   Epilogue: The Value of the Edges   Works Cited Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409170637143,"sku":"9781487570521","price":43.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487570521.jpg?v=1730505740","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeares-guide-to-hope-life-and-learning-9781487570521","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}