Teaching the Early Modern Period

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
The Scholarship of Teaching the Early Modern: An Overview....Pages 8-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Renaissance Teaching and Learning: Humanist Pedagogy in the Digital Age and What it Might Teach Us1....Pages 27-49
Information Revolutions Past and Present, and Teaching the Early Modern Period....Pages 50-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
‘Other Voices’: The Early Modern Past in Provincial America....Pages 73-75
Exploring the Limits of the Thinkable....Pages 76-80
Lobola, Intombi and the Soft-Porn Centaur: Teaching King Lear in the Post-Apartheid South African Classroom....Pages 81-103
Windows of Gold....Pages 104-112
A Renaissance Woman Adrift in the World....Pages 113-117
Worlds Apart, Worlds Away: Integrating the Early Modern in the Antipodes....Pages 118-123
Paradise Regained? Teaching the Multicultural Renaissance....Pages 124-145
Shakespeare and the Problem of the Early Modern Curriculum....Pages 146-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
An Early Modern Challenge: Finding the Student In-road....Pages 153-156
Teaching Shakespeare Historically....Pages 157-160
The Importance of Being Endogenous....Pages 161-164
Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: Strategies for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Seventeenth Century....Pages 165-183
Teaching Versailles....Pages 184-189
Paradoxical Creativity: Using Censorship to Develop Critical Reading and Thinking....Pages 190-217
T-shirt Day, Utopia and Henry VIII’s Dating Service: Using Creative Assignments to Teach Early Modern History....Pages 218-221
The Importance of Boredom in Learning about the Early Modern....Pages 222-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Teaching French Seventeenth-century Theatre: Saying is Believing....Pages 227-230
Teaching Early Modern Spectacle through Film: Exploring Possibilities, Challenges and Pitfalls through a French Corpus....Pages 231-250
Relevance and its Discontents: Teaching Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette....Pages 251-262
Presence, Performance and Critical Pleasure: Play and Prerequisites in Research and Teaching....Pages 263-269
Back Matter....Pages 270-273