List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Shakespeare, the Classroom, and Critical Hope
Part One: King Lear
Keep Falling, Alice: Rabbit Holes, Monkey Wrenches, and Critical Love in King Lear
Jessica Riddell
Impossible Choices and Unbreakable Bonds in King Lear: Close Reading, Negative Capability, and Critical Empathy
Shannon Murray
“Bless Thy Sweet Eyes, They Bleed”: The Ethics of Pedagogy and My Fear of Lear
Lisa Dickson
Part Two: As You Like It
Learning as an Act of Becoming in As You Like It
Jessica Riddell
“Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity”: Duke Senior’s Arden as a Hopeful Creation
Shannon Murray
Something Wicked: Verse and Bodies in As You Like It 5.2
Lisa Dickson
Part Three: Henry V
Henry V: Prophecy, Hope-Speak, and Future-Speak
Shannon Murray
Orators of Hope or Rhetors Gone Rogue? The Ambiguities of Persuasion in Henry V
Jessica Riddell
“We Should Just F**k around with Some Text”: Henry V and the White Box Classroom
Lisa Dickson
Part Four: Hamlet
Chasing Roosters on the Ramparts: Three Ways of Doing in Hamlet
Lisa Dickson
Acknowledging the Complexity of Unknowing as an Act of Critical Hope in Hamlet
Jessica Riddell
Wonder and Dust in a Hopeful Hamlet
Shannon Murray
Epilogue: The Value of the Edges
Works Cited
Index
