Teaching Shakespeare''s Emotions

Drawing on critical insights from the history of emotion and Shakespearean emotion studies, this Element offers a pedagogy rooted in a historicist approach as a stimulating alternative to the teaching of Shakespeare's emotions as universally and transhistorically relatable. It seeks to provide a roadmap - by way of contextual and analytical frameworks and suggested learning activities - for teaching students how to mind the gap between Shakespeare's emotional moment and their own. The benefits to this approach include not only students' enhanced understanding of Shakespeare's plays in the context of early modern emotion culture but also their enhanced ability to think historically and critically about emotions, both in Shakespeare's day and now.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Sophie Refskou, Anne Sophie (Aarhus University) Refskou
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.02.2026
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781009589505
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0958950-5
• Pages: 102
• Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy
• Subjects: Education, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Society & culture: general, Comparative Literature, Popular psychology, Psychology: emotions, Social Pedagogy, Literature: history & criticism, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Emotions and emotional intelligence, Classic fiction: literary and general