An Old Friend Finally Read My Book and LOVED It!

Darryl on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

This from a dear friend of mine, Darryl Henriques:

Lessons From Shakespeare’s Classroom by Robin Lithgow is filled with so much information about the English system of Humanist education and the important influence of Desiderius Erasmus that the book is akin to a university education. Ms. Lithgow has left no historical stone unturned and as a result she has discovered source material previously unavailable. Elizabethan students didn’t simply attend school — they were there to perform their lessons for their headmaster, who, in addition to determining the lessons, would write plays for the students to perform. As well as acting, students learned dance and music; and, of course, the lessons were all in Latin. My description of Shakespeare’s classroom is a meager attempt to give a reader a small sample of the depth and extent of Lithgow’s presentation. Her goal is to present educational techniques that can beapplied in today’s schools. She herself had that opportunity when she was the Director of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Arts Education Branch, helping to bring teachers in the arts of dance, music, theater and visual arts to the 550 elementary schools in the Los Angeles school district.

Darry Henriques

(Also, so many of my readers have been impressed by how FUN Lessons From Shakespeare’s Classroomis to read!)

You can order it directly from Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/Lessons-from-Shakespeares-Classroom-Empowering-Learning-Through-Drama-and-Rhetoric/Lithgow/p/book/9781032384078?srsltid=AfmBOooiuqogDMt-9h6yNkv0dLTzJH8WcvIREbwpSZzwA_9xRJecB4IQ

Or you can order it from Amazon.