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This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research.

Teaching the Early Modern Period

Acknowledgements Introduction; D.Clarke & D.Conroy The Scholarship of Teaching the Early Modern: An Overview; D.Conroy PART I: THE EARLY MODERN IN THE DIGITAL AGE Renaissance Teaching and Learning: Humanist Pedagogy in the Digital Age and What it Might Teach Us; D.Clarke Information Revolutions Past and Present, and Teaching the Early Modern Period; P.Dover PART II: THE EARLY MODERN AND ITS OTHERS 'Other voices': The Early Modern Past in Provincial America; J.Dewald Exploring the Limits of the Thinkable; S.Stuurman Lobola, the Intombi, and the Soft-Porn Centaur: Teaching King Lear in the Post-Apartheid South African Classroom; D.Seddon Windows of Gold; R.Whelan A Renaissance Woman Adrift in the World; M.E.Wiesner-Hanks Worlds Apart, Worlds Away: Integrating the Early Modern in the Antipodes; S.Broomhall Paradise Regained? Teaching the Multicultural Renaissance; J.Grogan Shakespeare and the Problem of the Early Modern Curriculum; A.Hadfield PART III: THE EARLY MODERN IN THE CONTEMPORARY CLASSROOM: COURSE DESIGN AND CLASSROOM PRACTICE An Early Modern Challenge: Finding the Student In-Road; P.Cheney Teaching Shakespeare Historically; M.Burnett The Importance of Being Endogenous; A.Viala Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: Strategies for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Seventeenth Century; B.Höfer Versailles; H.Goldwyn Paradoxical Creativity: Using Censorship to Develop Critical Reading and Thinking; K.Waterson T-shirt Day, Utopia and Henry VIII's Dating Service: Using Creative Assignments to Teach Early Modern History; C.Levin The Importance of Boredom in Learning About the Early Modern; C.Sullivan PART IV: PERFORMING THE EARLY MODERN French Seventeenth-Century Theatre: Saying is Believing; H.Phillips Teaching Early-Modern Spectacle through Film: Exploring Possibilities, Challenges and Pitfalls through a French Corpus; G.Spielmann Relevance and its Discontents: Teaching Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette ; A.Wygant Presence, Performance and Critical Pleasure: Play and Prerequisites in Research and Teaching; C.Biet Index