Focusing on Renaissance Teaching Methods

In my blog I am continuing to refine my focus, and will be spending considerable time over the next few weeks learning about the methods of Renaissance learning.  I want to know what Shakespeare was doing when he learned to write so that I can incorporate these methods, which have proved highly successful, into my own writing.  In order to reach this goal I will:

• Identify the motivations for Renaissance education
• Examine Renaissance Teaching Skills
• Review and analyze some examples from the period
• revision: Analyze contemporary works for his time and find the similar process?
• revision: look to the source work and see the process from a section of it to the Shakespearian transformation of it (should show the method)
• Track the progression of these methods into their modern counterparts (if they exist)
• Apply these methods to an analysis of various Shakespeare works (specifically his plays)
• Teach in some setting according to these methods
• Apply these methods to a revision of the play that I am writing with Martin

This post will function as a hub for my learning and I will refer to and expand it as I continue to explore these specifics.   Here we go!