Full Description
This edited collection considers the task of teaching Shakespeare in general education college courses, a task which is often considered obligatory, perfunctory, and ancillary to a professor's primary goals of research and upper-level teaching. The contributors apply a variety of pedagogical strategies for teaching general education students who are often freshmen or sophomores, non-majors, and/or non-traditional students. Offering instructors practical classroom approaches to Shakespeare's language, performance, and critical theory, the essays in this collection explicitly address the unique pedagogical situations of today's general education college classroom.
Contents
1.Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century.- 2.Teaching Shakespeare Off the Tenure Track.- 3.One-Act Shakespeare: Teaching Cultural Legacy Through Excerpts and Adaptations.- 4.'To Double Business Bound': Shakespeare and Gen Ed.- 5.'The Refusal of Compassion': Teaching The Merchant of Venice in a General Education Course.- 6.Getting a Return on Investment in Shakespeare.- 7.Green Shakespeare and the Environmental Studies Classroom.- 8.Teaching Shakespeare and Twenty-First Century Multicultural Sensibilities.- 9.Enhancing Creative Engagement with A Midsummer Night'sDream, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and Othello and Gen-Z Culture.- 10.'Some Enchanted Trifle': Shakespeare and Popular Culture in the Community College.- 11.Choose Your Own Adventure: Embracing Student-Selected Readings in the General Education Shakespeare Course.- 12.Online Shakespeare: Beneficial Learning Experiences for Non-Majors.- 13.Online Shakespearean Role Playing.- 14."We Must Follow the Leaders": Shakespeare Beyond the Classroom.- 15.Existential Shakespeare: Citizenship in the International Service-Learning Classroom.-
