How to Think Like Shakespeare - Lessons From a Renaissance Education

How to Think like Shakespeare offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought--one that demonstrates what we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief, lively chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully, in school or beyond. Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of thinking on every page, reviving timeless--and timely--ways to stretch your mind and hone your words.

About the author

Scott Newstok is professor of English and executive director of the Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College. A parent and an award-winning teacher, he is the author of Quoting Death in Early Modern England and the editor of several other books. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

Summary

A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully

Additional text

"A delightful book. . . . Intelligent, perceptive, readable, useful."---Matthew Stewart, University Bookman

Product details

• Authors: Scott Newstok
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780691177083
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17708-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Skills for Scholars
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Philosophy & theory of education, Moral and social purpose of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Moral & social purpose of education, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean