ABSTRACT
Lessons From Shakespeare’s Classroom: Empowering Learning Through Drama and Rhetoric will argue that the lively presence of the performing arts in the schools that Shakespeare and thousands of his peers attended contributed to the brilliance of the age.
If humanist education in Shakespeare’s day in any way produced smarter, more flexible thinkers, more discerning minds, and more intelligent citizens, it is worth our effort to identify what elements of that education could be simulated in schools today, with a particular scrutiny of the role of the performing arts.
