Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy

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 reprehens...