Shakespearean Educations Power, Citizenship, and Performance |
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| Editor:
| Kahn, Coppélia
Nathans, Heather S.
Godfrey, Mimi |
| Contribution by:
| Kahn, Coppélia
Nathans, Heather S.
Mylander, Jennifer
Gustafson, Sandra M.
Burton, Jonathan
Johnson, Nan
Renker, Elizabeth
Albanese, Denise
Haskin, Dayton
McAllister, Marvin
Kegl, Rosemary
Leinwand, Theodore |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64453-147-1 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $102.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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.