Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-64189-306-0
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Teaching the Middle Ages

This collection explores playful ways of fostering creative engagements with the medieval and early modern past and its own literary and artistic products, especially among those new to their study.

As scholars and teachers of early English, the contributors cover literary and cultural material from a range of genres within the Old English, Middle English, Tudor, and Stuart periods and collectively delve into a shared interest in facilitating what we might loosely define as “newcomer” or “non-specialist” encounters with the past: initial, exploratory contact in which prior knowledge cannot be assumed, whether involving creative professionals, experts from other disciplines, undergraduate and school students, or members of the public. Considering artworks and installation, theatre and performance and curation practices, case studies offer practice-based examples of learning and engagement which proceed primarily through creative and playful approaches. The case studies are arranged into two broad groups: those which work through performance and theatrical play of various kinds, and those which work through playful practices of production and making. All share a perspective of irreverence, of vivid immersion, and of the possibilities of conjuring with the past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brookman, Helen

Robinson, Olivia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: “Juniper and Mare’s Cheese,” by Mark Haddon

Introduction, by Helen Brookman and Liv Robinson

Part 1: Play through Performance

Chapter 1: “Gamifying the Canterbury Tales 1: Adopt-a-Pilgrim, Harry Bailley’s Game, and an RPG Canterbury Tales”, by Daniel T. Kline

Chapter 2. “Swiss Shakespeare: Creative Translation as Research and Appropriation”, by Elisabeth Dutton

Chapter 3. “Creating Medieval Drama: Student Actors, Public Audiences and Middle English Plays”, by Olivia Robinson

Chapter 4. “Playing Shakespeare in the Elementary Classroom”, by Clayton Stromberger

Part 2: Play through Production

Chapter 5. “‘Arthurian Transformations’: Undergraduate Students Curating a Digital Exhibition in an Interdisciplinary Medievalism Module,” by Helen Brookman

Chapter 6. “‘Create the Rest”: Learning through Doing in Shakespearean Education”, by Sheila Cavanagh

Chapter 7. “Formation from ‘Fragments’: Learning about Twelfth-Century Liturgy through Creative Engagement with Evidence”, by Matthew Cheung Salisbury

Chapter 8. “Redesigning the Medieval Book”, by Daniel Wakelin

Afterword: “No Limits”, by David Clark

Über Autor(innen)

Robinson, Olivia
Olivia (Liv) Robinson is Lecturer in Late Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Contest, Translation and the Chaucerian Text, and publishes on the theatre of medieval nuns.

Brookman, Helen
Helen Brookman is Professor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Education at King’s College London and Vice-Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Her interests lie in creative and interdisciplinary pedagogies and feminist critical and historical studies of the Humanities.