Books in the Options for Teaching series

Addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it will help in finding ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are.

Addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it will help in finding ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are.

In this volume, instructors will find ideas for teaching the Italian Renaissance romance epic along with its adaptations in film, theatre, visual art, and music. An extensive resources section locates primary texts online and lists critical studies, anthologies, and reference works.