Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

"This wonderful and wonder-filled book cracks open traditional ideas of scholarship."

Sandra Bell, University of New Brunswick, Saint John

"This is a book you will read once for sheer pleasure, again for inspiration, and a third time to be reminded why teaching and learning in the humanities classroom matter, now more than ever."

Arlette Zinck, The King’s University

"Three self-proclaimed ‘wyrdos’ offer their takes on four frequently taught plays. Through their marginal banter, Dickson, Murray, and Riddell punningly ’under-stand’ each other – and thereby model the intellectual friendship that all readers endlessly reenact through Shakespeare’s words."

Scott Newstok, author of How to Think like Shakespeare

"Framing Shakespeare pedagogy around ideas of critical hope, critical empathy, and critical love, this book speaks to a post-pandemic age. Smart, witty, theatrically engaged, and profoundly compassionate, it reimagines writing about Shakespeare as a playful act of multivocal interruption – guaranteed to have readers reaching for their pens to fill the margins with their own interruptions."

Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick