Shakespearean Educations
Power, Citizenship, and Performance
Book
Hardback
327 pages
978-1-61149-028-2 (ISBN)
Description
Shakespearean Educations expands the notion of "education" beyond the classroom to literary clubs, private salons, public lectures, libraries, primers, and theatrical performance. This collection challenges scholars to consider how different groups in our society have adopted Shakespeare as part of a specifically "American" education. This book maps the ways in which former slaves, Puritan ministers, university leaders, and working class theatergoers used Shakespeare not only to educate themselves about literature and culture, but also to educate others about their own experience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61149-028-2 (9781611490282)
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Persons
Coppelia Kahn is professor of English at Brown University. She was president of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2008?9.
Heather S. Nathans is associate professor of theatre, associate chair of theatre, and an acting associate dean for the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland.
Mimi Godfrey is managing editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, published by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
Heather S. Nathans is associate professor of theatre, associate chair of theatre, and an acting associate dean for the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland.
Mimi Godfrey is managing editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, published by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
Content
1 List of Illustrations 2 Acknowledgments 3 Introduction Part 4 Part I. Educating Citizens Chapter 5 Instruction and English Refinement in America: Shakespeare, Antitheatricality, and Early Modern Reading 6 "A course of learning and ingenious studies": Shakespearean Education and Theater in Antebellum America Part 7 Part II. Moral and Practical Educations 8 Lay on, McGuffey: Excerpting Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks 9 Shakespeare in American Rhetorical Education, 1870-1920 10 Part III. Ivy-Covered Curriculum, 1870-1920 11 Shakespeare in the College Curriculum, 1870-1920 12 Canons before Canons: College Entrance Requirements and the Making of a National-Educational Shakespeare 13 The Works of Wm Shakespeare as They Have Been Sundry Times Professed in Harvard College 14 Poet of America: Charles Mills Gayley's Anglo-Saxon Shakespeare 15 Part IV. Back to the Future 16 Shakespeare Visits the Hilltop: Classical Drama and the Howard College Dramatic Club 17 Outdistancing the Past: Shakespeare and American Education at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair 18 Afterword 19 Bibliography 20 Index