Emergence in Ardenspace: Shakespeare pedagogy, As You Like It, and modus Iferandi

Abstract

Imagine Shakespeare’s Rosalind exiled to Australia, a land of ‘traitors’ and the ‘banish’ d’ (1.3.52, 84), of perimeterless pasturelands and mysterious forests. From its earliest European days Australia became a land of convicts made good, of ‘co-mates and brothers in exile’ (2.1.1), a land of possibility. Today it remains a country especially responsive to the ‘virtue in If’ (5.4.103), and nowhere is this more relevant than in the field of literary education.1