{"product_id":"teaching-shakespeare-9781405140454","title":"Teaching Shakespeare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers insight into the classroom practices, special skills, interests, and experiences of some of the most distinguished Shakespearean scholars in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides anecdotal and practical advice for any reader interested in teaching the works of Shakespeare\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEngagingly candid\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" (\u003ci\u003eEarly Theatre,\u003c\/i\u003e 2010)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Passing it On (Skip Shand, Glendon College, York University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Mentoring.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Teaching Shakespeare, Mentoring Shakespeareans (Jean E. Howard, Columbia University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Text.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Planned Obsolescence or Working at the Words (Russ McDonald, Goldsmiths College, University of London).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Words: Teacher as Editor, Editor as Teacher (David Bevington, University of Chicago).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Questions That Have No Answers (Alexander Leggatt, University of Toronto).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Text and Performance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Teaching the Script (Anthony B. Dawson, University of British Columbia).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Test of Character (Miriam Gilbert, University of Iowa).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Last Shakespeare Picture Show or Going to the Barricades (Barbara Hodgdon, University of Michigan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Contexts (Institutional, Cultural, Historical).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Dancing and Thinking: Teaching “Shakespeare” in the Twenty-First Century (Kate McLuskie, Director, Shakespeare Institute).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Communicating Differences: Gender, Feminism, and Queer Studies in the Changing Shakespeare Curriculum (Ramona Wray, Queen’s University, Belfast).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Teaching Shakespeare and Race in the New Empire (Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Learning to Listen: Shakespeare and Contexts (Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Divided by a Common Bard? Learning and Teaching Shakespeare in the UK and USA (Richard Dutton, Ohio State University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: And in Conclusion....\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Playing Hercules or Laboring in My Vocation (Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515722981719,"sku":"9781405140454","price":84.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/teaching-shakespeare-9781405140454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}