Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare's world of learning / by Peter Milward.

Author

Milward, Peter.

Publication

Tokyo, Japan : Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, c2006.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Renaissance Institute.

Description

141 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Renaissance monographs ; 33

Uniform Title

Renaissance monographs ; 33.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Education
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge and learning
• Education in literature
• Universities and colleges > Europe > History
• Schools > Europe > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• 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.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 -- pt. 2. University and Renaissance. The origin of university education ; The mediaeval university ; The Renaissance academy ; Schools of the Reformation ; Shakespeare's little academe.

OCLC

70116341

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library