Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past / / ed. by Helen Brookman, Olivia Robinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Brookman, Helen,; Cavanagh, Sheila T.,; Clark, David,; Dutton, Elisabeth,; Haddon, Mark,; Kline, Daniel T.,; Robinson, Olivia,; Salisbury, Matthew Cheung,; Stromberger, Clayton,; Wakelin, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Brookman, Helen,; Robinson, Olivia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Teaching the Middle Ages
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Prologue: “Juniper and Mare’s Cheese” --; Introduction --; PART ONE: PLAY THROUGH PERFORMANCE --; Chapter 1. Gamifying the Canterbury Tales 1: Adopt- a- Pilgrim, Harry Bailley’s Game, and an RPG Canterbury Tales --; Chapter 2. Swiss Shakespeare: Creative Translation as Research and Appropriation --; Chapter 3. Creating Medieval Drama: Student Actors, Public Audiences, and Middle English Plays --; Chapter 4. Playing Shakespeare in the Elementary Classroom --; PART TWO: PLAY THROUGH PRODUCTION --; Chapter 5. “Arthurian Transformations”: Undergraduate Students Curating a Digital Exhibition in an Interdisciplinary Medievalism Module --; Chapter 6. “Create the Rest”: Learning through Doing in Shakespearean Education --; Chapter 7. Formation from “Fragments”: Learning about Twelfth- Century Liturgy through Creative Engagement with Evidence --; Chapter 8. Redesigning the Medieval Book --; Afterword: “No Limits” --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781802701425; 9783111023748; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319100; 9783111318141
• DOI: 10.1515/9781802701425?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Helen Brookman, Olivia Robinson.

This collection explores playful ways of fostering creative engagements with the medieval and early modern past and its own literary and artistic products, especially among those new to their study. As scholars and teachers of early English, the contributors cover literary and cultural material from a range of genres within the Old English, Middle English, Tudor, and Stuart periods and collectively delve into a shared interest in facilitating what we might loosely define as “newcomer” or “non-specialist” encounters with the past: initial, exploratory contact in which prior knowledge cannot be assumed, whether involving creative professionals, experts from other disciplines, undergraduate and school students, or members of the public. Considering artworks and installation, theatre and performance and curation practices, case studies offer practice-based examples of learning and engagement which proceed primarily through creative and playful approaches. The case studies are arranged into two broad groups: those which work through performance and theatrical play of various kinds, and those which work through playful practices of production and making. All share a perspective of irreverence, of vivid immersion, and of the possibilities of conjuring with the past.