How to Think Like Shakespeare - Lessons From a Renaissance Education

A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of 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 chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills enduring practices that can make learning more creative and pleasurable.Challenging a host of today's questionable notions about education, Newstok shows how mental play emerges through work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition, innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It was these practices, and a conversation with the past-not a fruitless obsession with assessment-that nurtured a mind like Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him.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.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Newstok
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780691227696
• ISBN: 978-0-691-22769-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• 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