{"product_id":"9781350562196","title":"Teaching Shakespeare in Tempestuous Times Titanic Optimism","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTeaching Shakespeare in Tempestuous Times\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTitanic Optimism\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCraig Dionne | Sharon O’Dair\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn investigation of the issues affecting the teaching of Shakespeare in non-elite public universities and private liberal arts colleges in the US, combined with a set of imaginative responses to those problems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare in Tempestuous Times\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the place of Shakespeare where almost all US students encounter his work-at non–elite public universities and small liberal arts colleges. Increasingly, these students are taught by contingent or overstretched tenured professors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowth in higher education has been constant over the past fifty years, fueled by democratization. But lately, democratization has lost its allure: higher education is too expensive, too politicized, and students and families think hard about the investment.  And now higher education faces another daunting challenge, a demographic cliff, beginning in 2026: a reduction of approximately 15% in the college-age cohort in the decade following. Already over the past ten years, for-profit institutions have failed, small non-profit four-year colleges have closed, and many public state systems have consolidated. More will follow. How do professors cope aboard what feels like a sinking ship?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers answers to that question, while assessing the limits of those answers by highlighting the structural constraints we face. Colleagues are becoming generalists, or even do not teach literature at all; Shakespeare, long considered untouchable, now struggles to survive; Shakespeareans, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the hand we are dealt, which we must play whether we acknowledge it, see it as a double bind, or choose to ignore it altogether. On the Titanic, the orchestra played familiar, upbeat pieces as the ship went down, trying to prevent panic. Heroic, true, but what this volume explores is whether preventing panic by reciting what's familiar is the answer we need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Dionne \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He is author of \u003ci\u003ePosthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and has co-edited several anthologies including \u003ci\u003eBollywood Shakespeares\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eNative Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eRogues and Early Modern English Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), and \u003ci\u003eDisciplining English\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) with  David Shumway. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Francisco\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Director for the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University, USA. He co-edited with Sharon O'Dair  \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the 99 %: Literary Studies, The Profession and The Production of Inequity\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), co-wrote “Whither Goest Thou Public Shakespearian” lead essay for \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Survey\u003c\/i\u003e's  special issue on Education, (2021,) and co-edited a special issue of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e on “Public Shakespeare and Performance” (2023).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon O'Dair\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emerita of English and was the former director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. In addition to her recent collaborations with Francisco, she is author of \u003ci\u003eClass, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (\u003c\/i\u003e2000) and co-edited T\u003ci\u003ehe Production of English Renaissance Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eThe Arden Shakespeare\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350562196\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e248\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331922264204,"sku":"9781350562196","price":85.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_70172d6a-551a-4cad-8a7b-fa87255be2ef.jpg?v=1783600226","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350562196","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}