Shakespeare's world of learning
By: by Peter Milward
Contributors: Renaissance Institute
Series: Renaissance monographs -- 33
Publisher: Renaissance Institute, Sophia University
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tokyo, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Knowledge; Education; Knowledge and learning; Education in literature; Universities and colleges; History; Schools
Notes: First part is devoted to images of "school" found in Shakespeare's plays; the second part deals with "real" development of school and university in the Western world, from the classical age of Greece to the Elizabethan age in England.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Shakespeare's school. The school of experience ; The school of love ; The school of adversity ; The school of melancholy ; The school of the ant ; The school of discovery; title: pt. 2. University and Renaissance. The origin of university education ; The mediaeval university ; The Renaissance academy ; Schools of the Reformation ; Shakespeare's little academe.