Teaching Shakespeare and His Sisters - An Embodied Approach

What are we teaching, when we teach Shakespeare? Today, the Shakespeare classroom is often also a rehearsal room; we teach Shakespeare plays as both literary texts and cues for theatrical performance. This Element explores the possibilities of an 'embodied' pedagogical approach as a tool to inform literary analysis. The first section offers an overview of the embodied approach, and how it might be applied to Shakespeare plays in a playhouse context. The second applies this framework to the play-making, performance, and story-telling of early modern women ¿ 'Shakespeare's sisters' ¿ as a form of feminist historical recovery. The third suggests how an embodied pedagogy might be possible digitally, in relation to online teaching. In so doing, this Element makes the case for an embodied pedagogy for teaching Shakespeare.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Teaching Shakespeare: Bodies and Spaces; 2. Teaching Shakespeare's Sisters; 3. Teaching Embodiment Online; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Summary

This Element explores the possibilities of an 'embodied' pedagogical approach as a tool to inform literary analysis; such an approach does not 'minimize' the distinction between the literary and the theatrical, but rather, explores how these two modes interrelate.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Whipday, Emma (Newcastle University) Whipday
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781108972161
• ISBN: 978-1-108-97216-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History: specific events & topics, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, Teaching skills and techniques, Gender studies: women, Teaching skills & techniques, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, History of Performing Arts, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies