Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World Bennett Paperback 9781009111096

Teaching Shakespeare\u2019s Theatre of the World\n\nUnlocks classroom approaches to explore identity, justice and cosmological order with Shakespeare's experiment: the theatre of the world.\n\nKristen Abbott Bennett (Author)\n\n9781009111096, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 18 December 2025\n\n120 pages\n27 x 18 x 0.7 cm, 0.112 kg\n\nThis Element 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 discus.