Full Description
This pioneering study investigates the connection between Shakespeare and Catholic education. Its authors contend that Shakespeare's plays explore Catholic understandings of human life in ways that remain relevant for Catholic educational institutions today.
Through chapters focusing on ethical and existential themes - love, desire, the body, marriage, virginity, evil, finitude, jealousy, and lies - the authors demonstrate Shakespeare's wide-ranging engagement with early modern Catholic belief and practice. At the same time, they argue that Shakespeare's treatment of Catholic faith, through imaginative literature rather than magisterial discourse, and dramatically rather than didactically, provides a pedagogical model for contemporary teachers.
The first volume to trace the relationship between a philosophy of Catholic education and Shakespearean drama, it will appeal strongly to all those working in Catholic educational settings, particularly those tasked with strengthening the mission of their institution, as well as to scholars and researchers of literacy education, religious education, and to those interested in the dynamic between education and drama.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Section One: Anthropology 3. Macbeth's Body: An Anatomy of Evil 4. Education and the Body: Twelfth Night and the Incarnation 5. Who do Students think they are? Nothing(ness) and Identity in King Lear 6. Section Two: Ethics 7. The Passion which causes Evil: Examining Envy and its Siblings in Shakespeare's Othello 8. How Studying King Richard III Might Assist Students in Recognising Deception in Themselves and Others 9. Section Three: Vocation 10. On St Swithin's Day: Star-Crossed Lovers and Cosmic Mysteries in Romeo and Juliet and One Day 11. Yielding many Scholars: The Virtue of Virginity in Measure for Measure and Pericles 12. Sacrifice as a Means to Knowing: Marriage and Sacramental Grace in The Merchant of Venice and Cymbeline 13. Section Four: Pedagogy 14. Education and Conversion Towards the Good: A Benedictine Framework and Shakespearean Soliloquies 15. Ignatian Pedagogy and Recognition: from the Bible to Shakespeare 16. Conclusion
