Creating playful first encounters with the pre-modern past / edited by Helen Brookman and Olivia Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brookman, Helen, editor.

Robinson, Olivia, 1982- editor.

Series:

Teaching the Middle Ages (ARC Humanities Press)

Teaching the Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Activity programs.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603--Study and teaching--Activity programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 136 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2023.

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.<br><br>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.

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

Chapter 2. Swiss Shakespeare: Creative Translation as Research and Appropriation

Love's Labour's Lost

The Merchant of Venice

The Benefits of Swiss Shakespeare

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

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"

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

Chapter 6. "Create the Rest": Learning through Doing in Shakespearean Education

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"

Chapter 8. Redesigning the Medieval Book

Back matter

Afterword: "No Limits"

index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781802701425

1802701427

OCLC:

1395542244