Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) engages with one of Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiments: How does one navigate the 'theatre of the world'?
It invites students to examine how Shakespeare challenges this
metaphor's vertical hierarchies in response to shifting understandings
of cosmological order.
Teachers will find rich contextual
frameworks for exploring how Shakespeare envisions 'worlds' as emerging
from dynamic variables, raising urgent questions about how identity and
justice are environmentally constructed.
Focal plays include A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello.
Each discussion features student centered 'Explorations'.
These play-specific classroom activities can also be adapted across
Shakespeare's corpus and tailored for both secondary and
university-level students.
These exercises encourage
non-linear critical and creative thinking, inviting students to
contemplate big ideas and generate new perspectives about the shared
points of contact between Shakespeare's world and their own.
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