Teaching Shakespeare passing it on /

This contemplative anthology offers personal essays by noted scholars on a range of topics related to the teaching of Shakespeare. Ideal for the graduate student, it addresses many of the primary concerns and rewards of the discipline, drawing on the variety of special skills, interests, and experie...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience Online service
Group Author: Shand, G. B
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444303193
Summary: This contemplative anthology offers personal essays by noted scholars on a range of topics related to the teaching of Shakespeare. Ideal for the graduate student, it addresses many of the primary concerns and rewards of the discipline, drawing on the variety of special skills, interests, and experiences brought to the classroom by the volume's distinguished contributors.:.; Offers insight into the classroom practices, special skills, interests, and experiences of some of the most distinguished Shakespearean scholars in the field.; Features essayists who reflect on the experience of teaching
Carrier Form: x, 241 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781444303193
1444303198
9781444303216 (electronic bk.)
144430321X (electronic bk.)
1282007432
9781282007437
Index Number: PR2987
CLC: I561.093
Contents: Introduction : passing it on / Skip Shand. Pt. I: Mentoring. Teaching Shakespeare, mentoring Shakespeare / Jean E. Howard. Pt. II: Text. Planned obsolescence or working at the words / Russ McDonald -- The words : teacher as editor, editor as teacher / David Bevington -- Questions that have no answers / Alexander Leggatt. Pt. III. Text and performance. Teaching the script / Antony B. Dawson -- A test of character / Miriam Gilbert -- The last Shakespeare picture show or going to the barricades / Barbara Hodgdon. Pt. IV: Contexts (institutional, cultural, historical). Dancing and thinking : tea