On Human Kindness: What Shakespeare teaches us about Empathy - NATIONAL DRAMA

On Human Kindness: What Shakespeare teaches us about Empathy

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

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