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  title info:
    title: Teaching Shakespeare's theatre of the world
  name:
    name part: Bennett, Kristen Abbott
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 108 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
  abstract: This Element engages with one of Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiments: How does one navigate the 'theatre of the world'? It invites students to examine how Shakespeare challenges this metaphor's vertical hierarchies in response to shifting understandings of cosmological order. Teachers will find rich contextual frameworks for exploring how Shakespeare envisions 'worlds' as emerging from dynamic variables, raising urgent questions about how identity and justice are environmentally constructed. Focal plays include A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice and Othello. Each discussion features student centered 'Explorations.' These play-specific classroom activities can also be adapted across Shakespeare's corpus and tailored for both secondary and university-level students. These exercises encourage non-linear critical and creative thinking, inviting students to contemplate big ideas and generate new perspectives about the shared points of contact between Shakespeare's world and their own.
  table of contents: Prologue: Enter chorus -- The theatre of the world in ancient, mediaeval, and early modern contexts -- Thematic explorations of the theatre of the world -- Formal explorations of the theatre of the world -- Coda: Who's there?
  note: Kristen Abbott Bennett.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [95]-108).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology in literature
  classification: 822.33
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge elements
      part name: Elements in Shakespeare and pedagogy
  identifier: 1009111094
  identifier: 9781009111096
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250813
    record change date: 20260629203405.6
    record identifier: in00005676043