Lessons from Shakespeare’s Classroom: Empowering Learning Through Drama and Rhetoric (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

By: Robin Lithgow

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 242 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000830132
Related ISBNs:: 9781032384078, 9781032384061, 9781003344919
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/22/23
Copyrighted By:: Robin Lithgow, The right of Robin Lithgow to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Education, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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