ABSTRACT
Some of the flip cards lead to video content directly related to the play under discussion, while other flip cards suggest unrelated content that triggers surprising connections and insights. In William Shakespeare Performance History, students explore the aesthetics of reception and how the ways that audiences perceive and interpret meaning are specific to time and place. Enrollment in English department courses, and by extension Shakespeare, is declining. One writer reports that his department has seen a drop in majors from 850 in the spring of 2011 to about 500. One writer says that “the sense of Shakespeare’s significance that my students bring to class is often immensely conflicted, even contradictory, and can play out in unpredictable ways”. In “Shakespeeding into Macbeth and The Tempest: Teaching with the Shakespeare Reloaded Website,” Liam Semler uses randomly organized short video clips hidden behind online flip cards to provoke novel approaches to teaching the plays
