Of Human Kindness What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy
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Full Title

Of Human Kindness What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy
Author(s)

Paula Marantz Cohen
Edition
ISBN

9780300258325, 9780300256413
Publisher

Yale University Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy

While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways.

Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat "the other." Cohen argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic response to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature's power to champion what is best in us.

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