About this Book

Introduction: making meaning and doing justice with early modern texts -- I. Defamiliarizing Shakespeare -- Topical Shakespeare and the urgency of ambiguity -- Shakespeare in transition: pedagogies of transgender justice and performance -- Shakespeare in Japan: disability and a pedagogy of disorientation -- Global performance and local reception: teaching Hamlet and more in Singapore -- II. Decolonizing Shakespeare -- African-American Shakespeares: loving blackness as political resistance -- Chicano Shakespeare: the bard, the border, and the peripheries of performance -- "Intelligently organized resistance": Shakespeare in the diasporic politics of John E. Bruce -- III. Ethical queries and practices -- Sexual violence, trigger warnings, and the early modern classroom -- Rural Shakespeare and the tragedy of education -- Shakespearean tragedy, ethics, and social justice -- Teaching environmental justice and early modern texts: collaboration and connected classrooms -- Failing with Shakespeare: political pedagogy in Trump's America.