Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

Lisa Dickson is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and a full professor of early modern literature and literary theory at the University of Northern British Columbia.Shannon Murray is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and a full professor of early modern and children’s literature at the University of Prince Edward Island.Jessica Riddell is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, and a full professor of early modern literature at Bishop’s University.

"It is rare that a book challenges us to read differently and accept clear and present mergers between personal and individual experiences in our classrooms that directly inform our scholarship. All three contributors make indelible points about the bard but let the authorial and editorial apparatus transform this book into a living document of its own."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Prologue: Shakespeare, the Classroom, and Critical HopePart One: King Lear Keep Falling, Alice: Rabbit Holes, Monkey Wrenches, and Critical Love in King LearJessica RiddellImpossible Choices and Unbreakable Bonds in King Lear: Close Reading, Negative Capability, and Critical EmpathyShannon Murray"Bless Thy Sweet Eyes, They Bleed": The Ethics of Pedagogy and My Fear of LearLisa DicksonPart Two: As You Like It Learning as an Act of Becoming in As You Like ItJessica Riddell"Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity": Duke Senior’s Arden as a Hopeful CreationShannon MurraySomething Wicked: Verse and Bodies in As You Like It 5.2Lisa DicksonPart Three: Henry V Henry V: Prophecy, Hope-Speak, and Future-SpeakShannon MurrayOrators of Hope or Rhetors Gone Rogue? The Ambiguities of Persuasion in Henry VJessica Riddell"We Should Just F**k around with Some Text": Henry V and the White Box ClassroomLisa DicksonPart Four: Hamlet Chasing Roosters on the Ramparts: Three Ways of Doing in HamletLisa DicksonAcknowledging the Complexity of Unknowing as an Act of Critical Hope in HamletJessica RiddellWonder and Dust in a Hopeful HamletShannon MurrayEpilogue: The Value of the EdgesWorks CitedIndex