This collection of personal essays offers a reflective window into the life-long calling that is Shakespeare in the university classroom. It acknowledges the traditions in which these scholars work and the teachers who have advised and inspired them. Representing a broad range of approaches to the discipline and the profession, the essayists write about why teaching Shakespeare matters,and why they do it the way they do. No one who teaches Shakespeare, or who iscontemplating teaching it, will fail to be encouraged and instructed -- even mentored -- by the personal reflections found within this volume. INDICE: Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgments.Introduction: Passing it On:Skip Shand (Glendon College, York University).Part I: Mentoring.1 Teaching Shakespeare, Mentoring Shakespeareans: Jean E. Howard (Columbia University).PartII: Text.2 Planned Obsolescence or Working at the Words: Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths College, University of London).3 The Words: Teacher as Editor, Editor asTeacher: David Bevington (University of Chicago).4 Questions That Have No Answers: Alexander Leggatt (University of Toronto).Part III: Text and Performance.5 Teaching the Script: Anthony B. Dawson (University of British Columbia).6 ATest of Character: Miriam Gilbert (University of Iowa).7 The Last ShakespearePicture Show or Going to the Barricades: Barbara Hodgdon (University of Michigan).Part IV: Contexts (Institutional, Cultural, Historical).8 Dancing and Thinking: Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century: Kate McLuskie (Director, Shakespeare Institute).9 Communicating Differences: Gender, Feminism, and Queer Studies in the Changing Shakespeare Curriculum: Ramona Wray (Queens University, Belfast).10 Teaching Shakespeare and Race in the New Empire: Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania).11 Learning to Listen: Shakespeare and Contexts: Frances E. Dolan (University of California, Davis).12 Divided by a Common Bard? Learning and Teaching Shakespeare in the UK and USA: Richard Dutton (OhioState University).Part V: And in Conclusion. 13 Playing Hercules or Laboring in My Vocation: Carol Chillington Rutter (University of Warwick).Index
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-4045-4
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 05/09/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés