Teaching Shakespeare / / ed. by Walter Edens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• MitwirkendeR: Beckerman, Bernard,; Bergeron, David M.,; Carroll, D. Allen,; Cubeta, Paul M.,; Eggers, Walter F.,; Halio, Jay L.,; Hamilton, A. C.,; Heffner, Ray L.,; Heilman, Robert B.,; Knight, G. Wilson,; McLean, Andrew M.,; Rabkin, Norman,; Schleiner, Winfried,; Velz, John W.,; Vickers, Brian,; Wertheim, Albert,
• HerausgeberIn: Edens, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1233
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)

Here is a rich variety of approaches to teaching Shakespeare, described by authors who are distinguished teachers and scholars. In setting forth their classroom techniques they otter critical insights as well as stimulating ideas for use by other teachers. Their suggestions range from different pairings of plays, provocative questions for discussion, and ways of reading aloud, to projects for class performances and even possibilities for teaching Shakespeare outside the classroom. The contributors share a concern for developing students' interests and skills beyond strict formal analysis.Contributors: Walter F. Eggers, Jr., Robert B. Heilman, John W. Velz, D. Allen Carroll, Norman Rabkin, Winfried Schleiner, A. C. Hamilton, Albert Wertheim, Paul M. Cubeta, David M. Bergeron, Ray L. Heffner, Jr., Brian Vickers, Jay L. Halio, G. Wilson Knight, Bernard Beckerman.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. DESCRIPTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS -- One. Shakespeare in the Classroom: Scientific Object vs. Immediate Experience -- Two. Shakespeare Inferred -- Three. The Presentation of Shakespeare -- II. SHAKESPEARE AND THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM -- Four. Shakespeare and the Graduate English Curriculum -- Five. Deromanticizing the Shrew: Notes on Teaching Shakespeare in a "Women in Literature" Course -- III. THE COURSE IN SHAKESPEARE: GENRE AND CANON -- Six. On Teaching the Shakespeare Canon: The Case of Measure for Measure -- Seven. "Things Climb Upward to What They Were Before": The Reteaching and Regreening of Macbeth -- Eight. Lear's Comic Vision: "Come, Let's Away to Prison" -- Nine. Plays within Plays in Shakespeare's Early Comedies -- IV. EXEMPLARY APPROACHES TO PARTICULAR PLAYS -- Ten. Hunting for Clues in Much Ado About Nothing -- Eleven. Teaching Coriolanus: The Importance of Perspective -- V. SEEING AND HEARING THE PLAY -- Twelve. "This Wide and Universal Stage": Shakespeare's Plays as Plays -- Thirteen. The Teacher as Poetic Actor -- Fourteen. Some Problems in Teaching Shakespeare's Plays as Works of Drama -- Annotated Bibliography -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- Backmatter