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This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research.

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Acknowledgements Introduction; D.Clarke & D.Conroy The Scholarship of Teaching the Early Modern: An Overview; D.Conroy PART I: THE EARLY MODERN IN THE DIGITAL AGE Renaissance Teaching and Learning: Humanist Pedagogy in the Digital Age and What it Might Teach Us; D.Clarke Information Revolutions Past and Present, and Teaching the Early Modern Period; P.Dover PART II: THE EARLY MODERN AND ITS OTHERS ´Other voices´: The Early Modern Past in Provincial America; J.Dewald Exploring the Limits of the Thinkable; S.Stuurman Lobola, the Intombi, and the Soft-Porn Centaur: Teaching King Lear in the Post-Apartheid South African Classroom; D.Seddon Windows of Gold; R.Whelan A Renaissance Woman Adrift in the World; M.E.Wiesner-Hanks Worlds Apart, Worlds Away: Integrating the Early Modern in the Antipodes; S.Broomhall Paradise Regained? Teaching the Multicultural Renaissance; J.Grogan Shakespeare and the Problem of the Early Modern Curriculum; A.Hadfield PART III: THE EARLY MODERN IN THE CONTEMPORARY CLASSROOM: COURSE DESIGN AND CLASSROOM PRACTICE An Early Modern Challenge: Finding the Student In-Road; P.Cheney Teaching Shakespeare Historically; M.Burnett The Importance of Being Endogenous; A.Viala Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: Strategies for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Seventeenth Century; B.Höfer Versailles; H.Goldwyn Paradoxical Creativity: Using Censorship to Develop Critical Reading and Thinking; K.Waterson T-shirt Day, Utopia and Henry VIII´s Dating Service: Using Creative Assignments to Teach Early Modern History; C.Levin The Importance of Boredom in Learning About the Early Modern; C.Sullivan PART IV: PERFORMING THE EARLY MODERN French Seventeenth-Century Theatre: Saying is Believing; H.Phillips Teaching Early-Modern Spectacle through Film: Exploring Possibilities, Challenges and Pitfalls through a French Corpus; G.Spielmann Relevance and its Discontents: Teaching Sofia Coppola´s Marie Antoinette ; A.Wygant Presence, Performance and Critical Pleasure: Play and Prerequisites in Research and Teaching; C.Biet Index

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´This book is an excellent addition to materials on pedagogy not simply for the early modern period but in general. The range of responses is fittingly diverse and much thought has been put into designing a well-crafted and innovative collection. The key importance of the volume is its geographical, disciplinary and cultural range. One of the great virtues of this book is its diversity, and it will appeal to scholars, postgraduates and teachers in the UK, USA, Europe and Australia.´ - Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester, UK

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