Shakespeare Now!

Learning versus the System

By: Liam E. Semler

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Paperback | 19 December 2013 | Edition Number 1

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128 Pages

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Our schools and universities are formal courts of learning in which educators and students are system creatures busily fulfilling system protocols. Like Shakespeare in the classroom, any teacher or academic yearning for fresh and authentic approaches to their discipline must first find ways to imagine possibilities beyond the system's limits. This book sounds the depths of the problem in respect to Literary Studies and proposes strategies for effecting voluntarily exile from court. The project is vexed because systemic thought envelopes and shapes us. For the sake of ourselves, our students and learning, we must attempt to imagine the unimaginable. There is a cost in resisting the system and there are no guarantees of success, yet it is the only way to discover if some monster good lies beyond the goals the system has naturalised. Shakespeare and Marlowe are our subjects, guides and collaborators in this attempt.

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This is a short book, but it is extremely rich ... The book's strength lies in combining a personal and reasonable exhortation to an urgent revision of what 'learning' can be with a refusal to simplify the issue into merely a matter of resistance. * Parergon, Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies *
A welcome and iconoclastic guide to liberating approaches to the two playwrights in the classroom. -- Roland Greene, Stanford University * Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama *

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