Shakespeare’s “The Strangers’ Case” from Munday and Chettle’s Sir Thomas More illustrates the profound and surprising changes perspective-taking can make to spectators. “Scaling the Mountain of Inhumanity” Augille du Midi, Summer, by Martin Janner: (If you need a refresher on Sir Thomas More, check out Sir Ian McKellen’s performance.) These are adapted from the epilogue of my book, Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare’s Characters. As such, I’m taking the opportunity to post some program notes I wrote for a Resurgens Theatre production of Sir Thomas More in April. I’ll have thoughts about successful forays and failed experiments as the semester goes along, but today I only have anticipation. My classes begin Thursday, and with them my attempts to better infuse my teaching with intersectional thinking.
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