Shakespeare’s guide to hope, life, and learning

Dickson, Lisa (author.). Murray, Shannon, 1961- (author.). Riddell, Jessica. (author.).

Summary: "How would our world look if we took critical hope, empathy, and love as the starting point for our learning and our lives? Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between Shakespeare’s most popular plays and our modern experience, between teachers and learners, and between the hopeful and the world at large. The book analyses four Shakespeare plays--King Lear, Hamlet, As You Like It, and Henry V--and reveals how they help us to occupy, appreciate, and responsibly interrogate the perspectives of others. Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray, and Jessica Riddell explore a diversity of genres--tragedy, history, and comedy--with distinct perspectives from their own lived experiences. They carry on lively conversations in the margins of each essay, mirroring the kind of open, on-going and collaborative thinking Shakespeare demands of us. In their quest for critical empathy, they approach each play with the question: "What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?" The book is informed by ideas of justice and transformation, articulated by such thinkers as Paulo Freire, Parker J. Palmer, Ira Shor, John D. Caputo, and bell hooks. In exploring the joy of teaching and experiencing Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning advocates for a critical hope that arises from classroom experiences and moves into the world at large."--

Record details

ISBN: 1487570511
ISBN: 9781487570514
Physical Description: xii, 198 pages: illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
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Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

General Note:	All authors have made contributions to each chapter and collectively written the Prologue and the Epilogue.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Keep Falling, Alice: Rabbit Holes, Monkey Wrenches, and Critical Love in King Lear / Jessica Riddell -- Impossible Choices and Unbreakable Bonds in King Lear: Close Reading, Negative Capability, and Critical Empathy / Shannon Murray -- “Bless Thy Sweet Eyes, They Bleed”: The Ethics of Pedagogy and My Fear of Lear / Lisa Dickson -- Learning as an Act of Becoming in As You Like It / Jessica Riddell -- “Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity”: Duke Senior’s Arden as a Hopeful Creation / Shannon Murray -- Something Wicked: Verse and Bodies in As You Like It 5.2 / Lisa Dickson -- Henry V: Prophesy, Hope-Speak, and Future-Speak / Shannon Murray -- Orators of Hope or Rhetors Gone Rogue? The Ambiguities of Persuasion in Henry V / Jessica Riddell -- “We Should Just F**k around with Some Text”: Henry V and the White Box Classroom / Lisa Dickson -- Chasing Roosters on the Ramparts: Three Ways of Doing in Hamlet / Lisa Dickson -- Acknowledging the Complexity of Unknowing as an Act of Critical Hope in Hamlet / Jessica Riddell -- Wonder and Dust in a Hopeful Hamlet / Shannon Murray.