Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Making Meaning and Doing Justice with Early Modern Texts -- I. Defamiliarizing Shakespeare -- 1. Topical Shakespeare and the Urgency of Ambiguity -- 2. Shakespeare in Transition: Pedagogies of Transgender Justice and Performance -- 3. Shakespeare in Japan: Disability and a Pedagogy of Disorientation -- 4. Global Performance and Local Reception: Teaching Hamlet and More in Singapore -- II. Decolonizing Shakespeare -- 5. African-American Shakespeares: Loving Blackness as Political Resistance -- 6. Chicano Shakespeare: The Bard, the Border, and the Peripheries of Performance -- 7. "Intelligently organized resistance": Shakespeare in the Diasporic Politics of John E. Bruce -- III. Ethical Queries and Practices -- 8. Sexual Violence, Trigger Warnings, and the Early Modern Classroom -- 9. Rural Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Education -- 10. Shakespearean Tragedy, Ethics, and Social Justice -- 11. Teaching Environmental Justice and Early Modern Texts: Collaboration and Connected Classrooms -- 12. Failing with Shakespeare: Political Pedagogy in Trump's America -- IV. Revitalizing the Archive and Remixing Traditional Approaches -- 13. Teaching Serial with Shakespeare: Using Rhetoric to Resist -- 14. Adjunct Pleasure: Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Writing on the Walls -- 15. Confronting Bias and Identifying Facts: Teaching Resistance Through Shakespeare -- 16. Literary Justice: The Participatory Ethics of Early Modern Possible Worlds -- V. Shakespeare, Service, and Community -- 17. Shakespeare, Service Learning, and the Embattled Humanities -- 18. Teaching Shakespeare Inside Out: Creating a Dialogue Between Traditional and Incarcerated Students -- 19. "'Shakespeare' on his lips": Dreaming of the Shakespeare Center for Radical Thought and Transformative Action -- 20. From Pansophia to Public Humanities: Connecting Past and Present Through Community-Based Learning -- 21. Cultivating Critical Content Knowledge: Early Modern Literature, Pre-service Teachers, and New Methodologies for Social Justice -- An Afterword About Self/ Communal Care -- Bibliography -- Index
New ideas for teaching contemporary social justice through Shakespeare and Renaissance literatureDescribes innovative and portable teaching methods informed by recent scholarship in early modern literature, cultural studies, and critical pedagogyOffers strategies for effective teaching and advocacy amidst the growing cultural and economic complexities of higher educationDemonstrates the relevance of historical literary study to contemporary cultural conversations, especially those about social justiceHistoricizes the malicious whitening" of Shakespeare and European culture, recognizing instead multiple, multicultural, accessible ShakespearesPresents Shakespeare's plays as a common corpus of great value to democratic conversations in widely divergent contextsGives educators language for promoting the virtue of humanistic inquiry and when higher education is on the defensiveThis book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social formation and action. Its twenty-one chapters provide diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices. They model ways of mobilizing justice with early modern texts and claim the intellectual benefits of integrating social justice into courses. The book reconceives the relationship between students and Renaissance literature in ways that enable them - and us - to move from classroom discussions to real-life applications."
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9781474455602
2019457648
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700 Social justice in literature. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.