Teaching social justice through Shakespeare : : why Renaissance literature matters now / / edited by Hillary Eklund and Wendy Beth Hyman.

• Superior document: Edinburgh scholarship online
• VerfasserIn: Eklund, Hillary,
• TeilnehmendeR: Eklund, Hillary Caroline, 1977-; Hyman, Wendy Beth,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages).
• Notes: Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.

Table of Contents

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