Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama
Editor(s): Karen Bamford, Alexander Leggat
Pages: xv & 230 pp.
Published: 2002
ISBN: 9780873527743 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527736 (hardcover)
"This is an excellent volume which will be highly useful to a well-targeted audience--college and university teachers of English Renaissance Drama exclusive of Shakespeare. Since few pedagogical materials on Shakespeare's contemporaries now exist, this will be a much-appreciated resource for all of us who teach these plays."
Linda Woodbridge, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
Many college students are familiar with the works of William Shakespeare but may know little about other playwrights of his era. This volume explores the compelling dramatic techniques and rich language found in a wide variety of both well-known and less-familiar Renaissance plays. A series of reading, performance, and research strategies is outlined for teachers who wish to encourage students to understand the English Renaissance from a fresh perspective.
Like the other volumes in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this one offers classroom advice from experienced teachers. The first section, "Materials," surveys classroom practice and discusses the resources available to teachers, including editions, historical information on performance conditions, films and videos of productions, and related Internet sites. The second section, "Approaches," offers strategies for teaching the plays as performance, for introducing students to the language of Renaissance drama, and for demonstrating the collaborative nature of Renaissance authorship. Contributors also consider the plays in the context of racial, gender, religious, and class issues in the Renaissance and compare the dramas to Stuart masques, festive practices, and other art forms such as painting.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama
PART 1: PRACTICES AND MATERIALS
Classroom Practice
Alexander Leggatt
Editions, Recommended Reading, Performance, the Internet
Karen Bamford
A Renaissance Filmography
Philippa Sheppard
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction: The Strangeness of Renaissance Drama
Alexander Leggatt
Texts and Resources
Texts That Won't Stand Still
Leah S. Marcus
Performance Conditions
A. R. Braunmuller
Fair Counterfeits: A Bibliography of Visual Aids for Renaissance
Drama
Philippa Sheppard
Strategies
Teaching Texture in Jonson's The Alchemist
Joseph Candido
The Witch of Edmonton: A Model for Teaching Collaboration in
the Renaissance
Jayson B. Brown, William W. E. Slights, and Reta Terry
Responding to Renaissance Drama: One Way of Guiding
Students
Frances Teague
Vittoria's Secret: Teaching Webster's The White Devil as a Tragedy
of Inscrutability
James Hirsh
Against the Bogeyman in English Renaissance Drama
Theodore B. Leinwand
"Our Sport Shall Be to Take What They Mistake": Classroom
Performance and Learning
Helen Ostovich
Teaching Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam through Performance
Laurie Maguire
Teaching History, Teaching Difference, Teaching by Directing
Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness
Ric Knowles
Webbing Webster
C. E. McGee
Contexts
Arden and the Archives
Arthur F. Kinney
"This Strumpet Serves Her Own Ends": Teaching Class and
Service in Early Modern Drama
Jan Stirm
Teaching the Details of Race and Religious Difference in
Renaissance Drama
Rebecca Ann Bach
Historicizing Gender: Mapping Cultural Space in Webster's
The Duchess of Malfi and Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam
Christina Luckyj
Tragedy and the Female Body: A Materialist Approach to
Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and Webster's
The Duchess of Malfi
Lori Schroeder Haslem
Sex Matters
Mario DiGangi
Teaching Drama as Festivity: Dekker's The Shoemakers' Holiday
and Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Phebe Jensen
How Much History Is Enough? Overcoming the Alienation of
Early Modern Drama
John Hunter
Jonson's Bartholomew Fair and Brueghel's Children's Games
Judith Weil
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue: Introducing Undergraduates to
Stuart Masques and Enjoying It
Randall Ingram
Contextualizing the Demonic: Marlowe's Dr. Faustus in the
Classroom
Thomas Akstens
Tamburlaine to Tarantino
Paul Budra
Works Cited
Index of Playwrights
Index of Dramas
Index of Names
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