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This survey is designed to gather information about instructors' methods and materials for teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, for the purpose of developing a new volume on Shakespeare's play in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Respondents are encouraged to submit a proposal for a contribution to the volume (see item 14 below) as well as to answer the
questions related to their teaching. Proposals and survey responses are due by 1 April 2008, after which date the survey will
no longer be available online. All respondents will be acknowledged in the published volume.
Please answer the questions on the form below and click Submit when you are finished. Your responses will go directly to the
volume's editors. The editors welcome supplemental materials such as course descriptions, syllabi, assignments, and bibliographies.
You may upload them (see the end of the form); send them by surface mail to Margaret Dupuis, Department of English, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331; or e-mail them to margaret.dupuis@wmich.edu.
You may also forward queries or comments to the editors at those addresses. Thank you for helping in the development of this important project.
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| 1. Please describe the course(s) in which you teach The Taming of the Shrew, indicating course title, type, and level. Is the course required or elective, for majors or nonmajors, general education or upper division? What is the format (e.g., lecture, discussion, seminar) and class size? How much time do you devote to this play in each course? |
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| 2. Which text(s) or edition(s) of The Taming of the Shrew do you use? |
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| 3. How do you situate this play in your syllabus and your classroom in relation to other texts either by Shakespeare or by other authors? |
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| 4. What secondary sources do you use in preparing to teach The Taming of the Shrew? What secondary sources do you recommend for students? |
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| 5. What aspects of the play do your students find most engaging or stimulating? Most difficult or challenging? |
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| 6. Do your students have difficulty with the play's language (e.g., struggles with Elizabethan bawdiness, archaic syntax or word usage, conventions of Elizabethan verse, classical references, etc.)? If you have encountered difficulties, how have you addressed them? |
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| 7. What kinds of assignments do you find most helpful? How do these assignments fit with the larger goals of the course, and how are they evaluated? |
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| 8. What audiovisual, digital, or Web-based materials have you found helpful? Please explain how you use them. |
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| 9. If you use online discussion groups, e-mail discussion lists, communal blogs, or other interactive electronic forums in your teaching of The Taming of the Shrew, please discuss how you do so. |
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| 10. If in your teaching of The Taming of the Shrew you stress a particular critical or theoretical approach, please describe which approach you use, which texts or essays you present to the students, and how you apply such perspectives in the classroom. |
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| 11. If you have been teaching The Taming of the Shrew for some time, how, if at all, has your pedagogical approach changed? |
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| 12. What is your approach to teaching the induction to the play (which is so often omitted in productions)? Is it central to your instruction, or do you de-emphasize or ignore it? |
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| 13. What sorts of information would you like to see in a book on teaching The Taming of the Shrew? What issues would you like to see addressed? |
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| 14. If you would like to propose an essay for this volume, please submit an abstract in which you describe your approach or topic and explain its potential benefit for students and instructors alike. Please submit a brief curriculum vitae; you may use the Browse button(s) below for this purpose, as well as to forward any supplemental materials, such as syllabi. |
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To send supplemental materials with this form, click the button(s) below and select a file or files from your hard drive.
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