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This pioneering study investigates the connection between Shakespeare and Catholic education. Its authors contend that Shakespeare's plays explore Catholic understandings of human life in ways that remain relevant for Catholic educational institutions today.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Section One: Anthropology 3. Macbeth's Body: An Anatomy of Evil 4. Education and the Body: Twelfth Night and the Incarnation 5. Who do Students think they are? Nothing(ness) and Identity in King Lear 6. Section Two: Ethics 7. The Passion which causes Evil: Examining Envy and its Siblings in Shakespeare's Othello 8. How Studying King Richard III Might Assist Students in Recognising Deception in Themselves and Others 9. Section Three: Vocation 10. On St Swithin's Day: Star-Crossed Lovers and Cosmic Mysteries in Romeo and Juliet and One Day 11. Yielding many Scholars: The Virtue of Virginity in Measure for Measure and Pericles 12. Sacrifice as a Means to Knowing: Marriage and Sacramental Grace in The Merchant of Venice and Cymbeline 13. Section Four: Pedagogy 14. Education and Conversion Towards the Good: A Benedictine Framework and Shakespearean Soliloquies 15. Ignatian Pedagogy and Recognition: from the Bible to Shakespeare 16. Conclusion
About the author
David Torevell is
Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, UK &
Visiting Professor at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
Brandon Schneeberger is Assistant Professor of English at Montreat College in North Carolina, where he teaches a variety of literature and writing courses.
Luke Taylor SJ has taught literature internationally, in both tertiary and secondary institutions. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (2013).
Summary
This pioneering study investigates the connection between Shakespeare and Catholic education. Its authors contend that Shakespeare’s plays explore Catholic understandings of human life in ways that remain relevant for Catholic educational institutions today.
