Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Dr. Joseph P. Haughey is an associate professor of English education and assistant director of teacher education at Northwest Missouri State University, where he teaches classes in composition, literature, and education. His other research interests beyond Hamlet include incorporating graphic novels in antiracist pedagogies, the use of graphic adaptations in teaching canonical texts, the historical analysis of Shakespeare's evolving role in American education, and general issues more broadly in teacher preparation, critical literacy, antiracism in schools, and rural education. Before joining the faculty at Northwest, Dr. Haughey taught middle and high school ELA in California and Alaska.
Prologue: “Begin at This Line”
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: “I Could a Tale Unfold”: Telling a Good Ghost Story, Bard-Style
Chapter Two: “There Is Method in It”: Hamlet’s Sinking Mental Health: Diving Deep into the Soliloquies
Chapter Three: “Words of so Sweet Breath”: Listening to Women’s Voices: What Ophelia and Gertrude Reveal
Chapter Four: “Like the Painting of a Sorrow”: Drawing Scenes from Hamlet: Getting Visual with the Text
Chapter Five: “I Have Been Sexton/Sixteene Here”: How Old Is Hamlet Anyway: Getting Gritty with Textual History
Epilogue: “This Business is Well Ended”
Appendix B: “I Have Some Rights of Memory”: A Note on Fortinbras
Glossary: “Words, words, words”
Works Cited
About the Author
In this valuable and more-than-helpful text, Dr. Haughey tackles the many challenges of teaching this iconic Shakespeare play to contemporary American students. Each chapter includes issues, questions, and activities honed over many years in the classroom that will not only guide students through the hazards of Hamlet but offer to teachers who read and use this book, ideas that will carry them through the more difficult parts of teaching, not just Hamlet, but all of Shakespeare. In Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom, 'the play IS the thing!
— Terri Bourus, general editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare, author of Young Shakespeare’s Young Hamlet: Print, Piracy, and Performance. editor of Shakespeare and the First Hamlet
Joseph Haughey states that ‘Hamlet is a play meant to teach readers how to think,’ and in the carefully designed and multi-layered chapters that follow, he proves to be a brilliant guide for enabling students to engage with the play and learn about themselves through such thinking.
— Edward Rocklin, author of Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare