{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Education","slug":"new-books-in-education-440333","podcast_index_feed_id":440333,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT4894369277","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/education/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/9be3f9ee-ef0e-11e8-9358-8bea507f6da7/image/dbb46fc615032b2077e20ce070801a55.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1217,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T14:21:34.203996+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-education-440333"},"episode":{"title":"Kristen Abbott Bennett, \"Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World\" (Cambridge UP, 2025)","slug":"kristen-abbott-bennett-teaching-shakespeare-s-theatre-of-the-world-cambridge-up-2025","published_at":"2026-06-12T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-education-440333/kristen-abbott-bennett-teaching-shakespeare-s-theatre-of-the-world-cambridge-up-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-education-440333","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2692733812.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2692733812.mp3","summary":"Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) 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 discussion features student centered 'Explorations'. These play-specific classroom activities can also be adapted across Shakespeare's corpus and tailored for both secondary and university-level students. These exercises encourage non-linear critical and creative thinking, inviting students to contemplate big ideas and generate new perspectives about the shared points of contact between Shakespeare's world and their own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education","meta_description":"Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) engages with one of Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiments: How does on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3814,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-education-440333/episodes/kristen-abbott-bennett-teaching-shakespeare-s-theatre-of-the-world-cambridge-up-2025/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-education-440333/kristen-abbott-bennett-teaching-shakespeare-s-theatre-of-the-world-cambridge-up-2025.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}