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Lessons from Shakespeare's Classroom

Empowering Learning Through Drama and Rhetoric

By: Robin Lithgow

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Paperback | 30 December 2022 | Edition Number 1

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This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century.

This study asks us what lessons we can learn today from Shakespeare's Latin grammar school. What were the cognitive benefits of an education so deeply rooted in what Demosthenes and Quintilian called "actio"—acting? Because of the vast difference between educational practice then and now, we have not often followed one essential thread: the focus on performance. This study examines the connections relevant to the education offered in schools today.

This book will be of great interest to teachers, scholars, and administrators in performing arts and education.

Industry Reviews

''I guarantee that Lessons from Shakespeare's Classroom will be the most surprising, most readable learning you will do all year, and that you will laugh out loud in every chapter. Zwounds!-hie thee to these pages most expeditiously.''

Eric Booth, Actor and author of "The Everyday Work of Art," "The Music Teachers' Bible," "Playing for Their Lives," and "Tending the Perennials."

''Robin Lithgow has done anyone interested in Shakespeare or education (and more particularly those of us interested in both Shakespeare and education) a great service with her book. By detailing the classical grounding of Shakespeare's writing she shows us the great tradition of which we are a part; a tradition that expands in its inclusivity as the world changes and evolves. This tradition is the "fertile soil" that contributed to the brilliance of Shakespeare's generation and lights a path for our own. It is truly an "education for the benefit of the commonwealth," which we perhaps need now more than ever.''

Louis Fantasia, Artistic Associate, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles

''Lithgow's book reanimates the Erasmian spirit of teaching in all the best ways: it's artfully copious, humanely conversational, and models throughout a witty flair for drama. Her students were fortunate; now we are, too.''

Scott Newstok, author of How to Think like Shakespeare

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