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As a concise history of Western pedagogical development, How To Think Like Shakespeare succeeds beautifully. . . . By the end of How To Think Like Shakespeare, [Newstok] has us thoroughly convinced. To think and create effectively requires one to train and practice. By apprenticing ourselves to the past, we can ourselves become links in the glorious chain of human intellectual achievement. ---Fernanda Moore, Chapter 16 Scott Newstok's latest book, How to Think Like Shakespeare, could be just the game changer the teacher (and administrator should have) ordered. . . . I couldn't help but be won over by his earnest enthusiasm for the subject and ended up wanting to hear still more. ---Robert M. LoAlbo, PlayShakespeare.com

As a concise history of Western pedagogical development, How to Think Like Shakespeare succeeds beautifully. . . . By the end of How To Think Like Shakespeare, [Newstok] has us thoroughly convinced. To think and create effectively requires one to train and practice. By apprenticing ourselves to the past, we can ourselves become links in the glorious chain of human intellectual achievement. ---Fernanda Moore, Chapter 16 One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2020 A lively and evocative new volume . . . a beautifully written, succinct description of educational principles derived from the best features of a renaissance education. The book is 'deliberately short,' but packed with quotations from the Bard and scores of great authors, all combined to make us think - and, with a little luck, to think more like 'our myriad-minded Shakespeare.' I highly recommend Newstok's book for its pith, clarity, and insight - and the sheer breadth of its bibliography, including delightful footnotes, a bibliographic essay, and an index of Shakespearean cornucopia. ---Rob Jackson, Institute for Classical Education How to Think Like Shakespeare is not the work of an activist militating for his cause but a thinker reveling in his work. Newstok reminds us that this work is, above all, fun, and the calling on display is infectious. ---Karl Schuettler, A Patient Cycle Finalist for the PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers [How to Think Like Shakespeare] is a playful, quote filled romp into the mind of Shakespeare. * Fourteen Lines blog * Scott Newstok's How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education really is a feel good book. A thick lather of the author's enthusiasm, a comprehensive coverage of his subject matter, and the common sense inherent in his value judgments, work together to whip up a likeminded enthusiasm in his readers . . . I found the experience of reading Newstok nothing short of exhilarating ---Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective Scott Newstok's latest book, How to Think Like Shakespeare, could be just the game changer the teacher (and administrator should have) ordered. . . . I couldn't help but be won over by his earnest enthusiasm for the subject and ended up wanting to hear still more. ---Robert M. LoAlbo, PlayShakespeare.com

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Scott Newstok is professor of English and executive director of the Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College. A parent and an award-winning teacher, he is the author of Quoting Death in Early Modern England and the editor of several other books. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

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