"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between four of Shakespeare’s most popular plays and our modern experience, and between teachers and learners. The book analyzes King Lear, As You Like It, Henry V , and Hamlet, revealing how they help us to appreciate and responsibly interrogate the perspectives of others. Award-winning teachers Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray, and Jessica Riddell explore a diversity of genres – tragedy, history, and comedy – with distinct perspectives from their own lived experiences. They carry on lively conversations in the margins of each essay, mirroring the kind of open, ongoing, and collaborative thinking that Shakespeare inspires. The book is informed by ideas of social justice and transformation, articulated by such thinkers as Paulo Freire, Parker J. Palmer, Ira Shor, John D. Caputo, and bell hooks. Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning advocates for a critical hope that arises from classroom experiences and moves into the world at large. "This wonderful and wonder-filled book cracks open traditional ideas of scholarship." ―Sandra Bell, University of New Brunswick, Saint John "This is a book you will read once for sheer pleasure, again for inspiration, and a third time to be reminded why teaching and learning in the humanities classroom matter, now more than ever." ―Arlette Zinck, The King’s University "Three self-proclaimed ‘wyrdos’ offer their takes on four frequently taught plays. Through their marginal banter, Dickson, Murray, and Riddell punningly ’under-stand’ each other – and thereby model the intellectual friendship that all readers endlessly reenact through Shakespeare’s words." ―Scott Newstok, author of How to Think like Shakespeare "Framing Shakespeare pedagogy around ideas of critical hope, critical empathy, and critical love, this book speaks to a post-pandemic age. Smart, witty, theatrically engaged, and profoundly compassionate, it reimagines writing about Shakespeare as a playful act of multivocal interruption – guaranteed to have readers reaching for their pens to fill the margins with their own interruptions." ―Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick Lisa Dickson is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and a full professor of early modern literature and literary theory at the University of Northern British Columbia. Shannon Murray is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and a full professor of early modern and children’s literature at the University of Prince Edward Island. Jessica Riddell is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, and a full professor of early modern literature at Bishop’s University.