How and Why We Teach Shakespeare

Introduction: How and Why

Sidney Homan

Section 1: Encountering Shakespeare's Verbal and Visual Text with Students

1. Theatricality and the Resistance of Thesis

Andrew Hartley

2. 'That's a question: How shall we try it?' (The Comedy of Errors 5.1)

Nick Hutchison

3. Re-Entering Macbeth: 'Witches Vanish' and Other Stage Directions

S. P. Cerasano

4. Seeing the Elizabethan Playhouse in Richard II

Joseph Candido

Section 2: Learning through Performance

5. Acting and Ownership in the Shakespeare Classroom

James Bulman and Beth Watkins

6. Performing Hamlet

Russell Jackson

7. 'Gladly Would He Learn and Gladly Teach': Empowering Students with Shakespeare

Sidney Homan

8. Uncertain Text: Student and Teacher Find Their Way Onstage in Romeo and Juliet

Jerry Harp and Erica Terpening

9. 'In Practice Let Us Put It Presently': Learning with Much Ado

Fran Teague and Kristin Kundert

Section 3: Approaching Shakespeare from Some Specific Angles

10. Shakespeeding into Macbeth and The Tempest: Teaching with the Shakespeare Reloaded Website

Liam Semler

11. 'And so everyone according to his cue': Practice-led Teaching and Cue-scripts in the Classroom

Miranda Fay Thomas

12. Collaborating with Shakespeare

Frederick Kiefer

13. Shakespeare without Print

Paul Menzer

Section 4: Shakespeare in Various Classrooms

14. That Depends: What Do You Want Two Plus Two To Be?

Cary Mazer

15. 'Who's there?' 'Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself': Attending to Students in Diversified Settings

Naomi Conn Liebler

16. Unpicking the Turkish Tapestry: Teaching Shakespeare in Anatolia

Patrick Hart

17. Teaching Shakespeare to Retirees in the OLLI Program

Alan Dessen

Afterword: Cur Non?

June Schlueter