Episode 9: To Teach or Not to Teach Shakespeare

Is Shakespeare still relevant? Is there any point to teaching Shakespeare outside of a Shakespeare course? In this episode, Paige and Margaret discuss the potential of including Shakespeare in your introductory, survey, and special topics course to find the threads that connect Shakespeare to today's world. We discuss ways we could use Shakespeare to teach research skills, examine political rhetoric, consider evolving identities, talk about literary collaboration, and more! As always, we try to share interesting resources we've discovered along the way. We'd love to hear how you've taught a Shakespeare course or incorporated Shakespeare into your film courses, Women in Lit courses, survey courses, etc. Share your experiences, questions, and comments with us on Twitter with @Literaturely101, on Instagram at LiteraturelyPodcast, or via email at LiteraturelyPodcast@gmail.com!

Om Podcasten

We are two friends who love teaching literature just as much as we love talking. Over the past five years or so, we have each taught a range of literature courses in a variety of contexts. Our experiences prompted us to think about what it means to teach literature in a twenty-first century classroom. In our podcast, we create a place to discuss literature pedagogy, consider the hurdles and concerns the majority of literature teachers will face, form a community to encourage collaboration, work through our own journey and questions, and share our general love for pedagogy. Let's craft our dream course together! Join in the conversation at our website: https://literaturely.wixsite.com/podcast