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Staging Restoration Comedy The Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967-2019
Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world’s leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This...
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Dante and His Circle Education, Script and Image
In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante's...
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One-Act Shakespeare: Teaching Cultural Legacy Through Excerpts and Adaptations
Despite widespread resistance to teaching Shakespearean drama through excerpted passages, an alternative to the standard two-week study of a...
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Green Shakespeare and the Environmental Studies Classroom
As early modern scholars and teachers, we often discuss the need to defend our field of study—to make Shakespeare relevant to our students and...
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Online Shakespeare: Beneficial Learning Experiences for Non-Majors
When studying Shakespeare’s plays, most undergraduates struggle with close reading, textual analysis, and interpretation. Engaging with and...
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Enhancing Creative Engagement with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and Othello and Gen-Z Culture
Teaching Shakespeare to non-majors is one of the most rewarding tasks an English professor can embrace. Students who are not English majors offer...
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“To Double Business Bound”: Shakespeare and Gen Ed
The opportunity to teach Shakespeare beyond the major often hinges on General Education requirements. At the University of Tennessee, where I teach,...
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Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
In this Introduction, Sasser and Atwood introduce the purpose of this collection and provide an overview of its contributing chapters. This...
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A Fruitful-Headed Beast?: Rhyme in The Faerie Queene
This chapter explores The Faerie Queene’s Hydran beasts in analogy with its regenerating, stanza-outrunning rhymes. While the only actual hydras in...
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These Factions and Schisms: Countering Absolutist Thought in Church and State
After the Dutch Republic signed a truce with Spain, political and religious tensions nearly destroyed the emerging nation. At its heart, the conflict...
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The New Black Legend: England’s Violent Colonial Competition with the Dutch
The predominance of African slave labor on plantations in English and Dutch colonies over the course of the seventeenth century highlights the...
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Conclusion: Lear’s Shadow, Office Today
Distributions of power are primarily maintained not through force, but through culture. The ‘absorptive capacities’ of Auschwitz would not have been...
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Lear’s Redemption
In political office and masculinity, Lear suffers overlap** anxieties of impotence. As his daughters suggest: he has failed to know himself. This...
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Introduction: Dutch Industry and English Identity
Early modern England and the United Provinces experienced an emulative rivalry between the Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution. The English...
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Introduction: The Praxis and Scope of Applied Shakespeare
This chapter introduces the reader to the praxis and scope of Applied Theatre as a performance practice. It draws upon theories and purposes relative...
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The Combat Veteran Players: A Case Study
This chapter aims to look specifically at the Combat Veteran Players’ (CVP) use of Shakespeare’s work within their own theatrical programme and how...
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The History of Prison Theatre
This chapter explores the history of theatre in prisons and the scope and expanse of applied work that uses the tools of theatre to engage the...
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Suggestions for Further Research
This chapter suggests areas for further reading, research, and investigation relative to the practice of Applied Theatre. The suggestions are...
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The History of Shakespeare and Disability Theatre
This chapter explores specific projects and/or performances that include the use of Shakespeare’s plays alongside Disabled communities. The projects...
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Shakespeare and Universalisation
This chapter argues how for centuries Shakespeare’s works have been an important source of inspiration for academics and practitioners alike, and...