How to Think like Shakespeare - Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Skills for Scholars
Release date:	April 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Scott Newstok
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-17708-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	0-691-17708-2
Barcode:	9780691177083

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