Shakespearean Educations: Power, Citizenship, and Performance - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611490286 ISBN 13: 9781611490282

Publisher: University of Delaware Press, 2011

Synopsis

Shakespearean Educations examines how and why Shakespeare's works shaped the development of American education from the colonial period through the 1934 Chicago World's Fair, taking the reader up to the years before the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (popularly known as the GI Bill), coeducation, and a nascent civil rights movement would alter the educational landscape yet again. The essays in this collection query the nature of education, the nature of citizenship in a democracy, and the roles of literature, elocution, theater, and performance in both. Expanding the notion of "education" beyond the classroom to literary clubs, private salons, public lectures, libraries, primers, and theatrical performance, this collection challenges scholars to consider how different groups in our society have adopted Shakespeare as part of a specifically "American" education. Shakespearean Educations maps the ways in which former slaves, Puritan ministers, university leaders, and working class theatergoers used Shakespeare not only to educate themselves about literature and culture, but also to educate others about their own experience.

About this title

About the Author:

Coppélia Kahn is professor of English at Brown University. She was president of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2008?9.
Heather S. Nathans is associate professor of theatre, associate chair of theatre, and an acting associate dean for the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland.
Mimi Godfrey is managing editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, published by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1611490286
• ISBN 13: 9781611490282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 327
• Editor: Kahn Coppélia, Nathans Heather S., Godfrey Mimi