Teaching Shakespeare / / ed. by Walter Edens.

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 pair...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1978
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1233
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Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
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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