Liam E. Semler is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia, and has been a visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge and the Universities of Massachusetts, Nottingham, Warwick and Essex. He leads the Better Strangers project which hosts the Shakespeare Reloaded website. He is author of Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe: Learning versus the System (2013) and The English Mannerist Poets and the Visual Arts (1998), and editor of The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 (2019) and Eliza's Babes; Or The Virgin's Offering (1652): A Critical Edition (2001).

Schools and universities are fast becoming managerial 'courts' of learning in which educators and students are system creatures busily fulfilling system protocols. Any teacher or academic yearning for fresh and authentic approaches to their discipline must first find ways to imagine possibilities beyond the system's limits.
This book sounds the depths of the problem in respect to Literary Studies and proposes strategies for effecting voluntary 'exile' from court in pursuit of more imaginative approaches to the teaching and learning of Shakespeare and Marlowe.

Prologue
Part 1 Schooling Shakespeare
1: Revenge 2: Positive Turbulence3: Shakespeare Reloaded
Part 2 Learning Marlowe
4: Perceived Relevance
5: Green Light
Epilogue