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Title Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past / edited by Helen Brookman and Olivia Robinson
Published Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (colour), map
Series Teaching the Middle Ages
Teaching the Middle Ages (ARC Humanities Press)
Contents Front Cover -- Front matter -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Body -- Prologue: "Juniper and Mare's Cheese" -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part One: Play through Performance -- Chapter 1. Gamifying the Canterbury Tales 1: Adopt-a-Pilgrim, Harry Bailley's Game, and an RPG Canterbury Tales -- Play and Role-playing, Creativity and Gamification -- Adopt-a-Pilgrim, Level 1: A Traditional Assignment -- ENGL A610: Gamifying Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Spring 2016
Course Plan: What I Prepared for the Students -- How We Spent a Typical Class -- Initial Conditions: What I Had the Students Do to Develop Their RPG Pilgrims -- Expanding the Course: An RPG Canterbury Tales -- Conclusion: The Pedagogy of the Replay -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2. Swiss Shakespeare: Creative Translation as Research and Appropriation -- Love's Labour's Lost -- The Merchant of Venice -- The Benefits of Swiss Shakespeare -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Creating Medieval Drama: Student Actors, Public Audiences, and Middle English Plays
Creating Medieval Drama and Student Learning: English Students -- Creating Medieval Drama and Student Learning: Students from Other Disciplines -- Students and Faith -- Audience Q and A -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4. Playing Shakespeare in the Elementary Classroom -- 1. "I get to express myself" -- 2. "I felt brave and it gave me confidence" -- 3. "I liked learning new words" -- 4. "I felt proud at the end" -- 5. "It was fun to do this with my friends" -- 6. "I felt a connection" -- Bibliography -- Part Two: Play through Production
Chapter 5. "Arthurian Transformations": Undergraduate Students Curating a Digital Exhibition in an Interdisciplinary Medievalism Module -- Opportunity and Transformation -- Interdisciplinarity and Mixed-Discipline Groups -- Collaboration and Co-creativity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6. "Create the Rest": Learning through Doing in Shakespearean Education -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7. Formation from "Fragments": Learning about Twelfth-Century Liturgy through Creative Engagement with Evidence -- Finding "Fragments" -- Blue, Black, and Red
Participating in the Life of "the Fragment" -- "But is the Fragment Scottish?" -- "Play": The Antithesis of Philology -- Learning from "the Fragment" -- Owning "the Fragment" -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8. Redesigning the Medieval Book -- Bibliography -- Back matter -- Afterword: "No Limits" -- index
Summary 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
Analysis Pedagogies, creativity, medieval, early modern, early English literature, performance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 13, 2023)
Subject Teaching of a specific subject.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Arts & Humanities.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Education, Secondary -- Activity programs
Activity programs in education
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Case studies
Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Activity programs
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brookman, Helen, editor
Robinson, Olivia, 1982- editor.
ISBN 9781802701425
1802701427