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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education

How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education

Hardcover

Series: Skills for Scholars, Book 18

Literary CriticismGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0691177082
ISBN13: 9780691177083
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Apr 21 2020
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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.

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