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OverviewAn 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 listeners 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paula Marantz Cohen , Janet MetzgerPublisher: Tantor Audio Imprint: Tantor Audio ISBN: 9798200166138Publication Date: 09 February 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""A marvellously perceptive and stimulating primer on the essential humanity, and humaneness, of this supreme literary artist."" -- ""John Banville, New York Times bestselling author"" ""Conveys the pure thrill of close reading: the almost dizzying effect of peeling away layers on a great work of art to find further strata beneath--the intense pleasure of getting it. -- ""Wall Street Journal""" Author InformationPaula Marantz Cohen is the dean of the Pennoni Honors College and Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University, as well as host of the television interview show The Civil Discourse. She lives in Philadelphia. Janet Metzger, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has performed as a stage, television, voice, and film actor and as a jazz vocalist in hotels and supper clubs. For five years she was the voice of Headline News, now HLN, during which time she also promoted features and news stories for CNN and CNN International. She is a graduate of Florida State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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