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- Title
Eklund, Hillary; Hyman, Wendy Beth (eds.). Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 271 pp.Ruiter, David (ed.). The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice. New York: The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. 330 pp
- Authors
Staub, Susan C.
- Abstract
In a valuable essay for those of us who teach in large state schools and whose Shakespeare students are mostly training to teach in high school, Todd Butler and Ashley Boyd call attention to the vital role teacher education plays in disseminating social justice pedagogy. When the speaker qualified his statement about the importance of "returning to teaching Shakespeare" with "but just the book", I knew his "Shakespeare" was not my "Shakespeare." Although several of the essays in both volumes explicate and challenge the fraught idea of Shakespeare "as a lone universal genius" (Hall, I Teaching Social Justice i , p. 90), they nonetheless recognize how Shakespeare's unique canonical status and the cultural capital attributed to his works have been and can be used to flip the script. Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); CLASSROOMS; SOCIAL justice; BLOOMSBURY Publishing PLC; EDINBURGH University Press; COLLEGE curriculum; SERVICE learning; POWER (Social sciences); PRAXIS (Process); THEATRICAL artistic directors
- Publication
Kritikon Litterarum, 2022, Vol 49, Issue 3/4, p353
- ISSN
0340-9767
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kl-2022-0044