Thinking As Shakespeare Would

I recently read a blog by Mr. Karl Fisch entitled WWSD: What Would Shakespeare Do? In the blog, Mr. Fisch talks about how he tried to make his students think more like Shakespeare to help them with discussions. He explains how he wanted his students to connect and extend things through Shakespeare's thinking so that they could focus on the difficulties of reading Shakespeare, along with anything else they were learning in class. His students made presentations after figuring out themselves what exactly Shakespeare would do in certain situations or how he would solve a certain problem. They took what they were discussing in class and they extended it like Shakespeare would, or at least they tried. Then they presented their findings with the rest of the class and the rest of the class would discuss whether or not they really extended well and with thorough thought. Mr. Fisch said that one of his students connected "'night' to Mission Impossible" (Fisch paragraph 6). That sounds really interesting to me, that you can take two things that are entirely different in so many ways and still be able to connect them somehow. I'm sure if anyone thought about it hard enough and extended something out, they could connect it to almost anything. Shakespeare though, is another story, because he is so unique in his literature and it's one thing to understand what he has written, let alone connect it to something completely different. It's a very good thing to go away with though: "What would Shakespeare do?" (Fisch paragraph 7). It's a good thing because it makes you think, think about unworldly concepts and just worldly concepts as well. You try to connect things from history, from modern times, etc, to Shakespeare to find out for yourself how exactly he thinks. Now of course, no one ever knew or ever will know how exactly he thought, only he would know that. No, you would just get an idea for yourself how he thought and then you could begin to think like that yourself, in one way or another, and connect that way of thinking to whatever it is you want to. That, to me, is just fascinating that you can do that. It makes you feel that you can do this with anything, with any part of history and connect it to anything else. It makes you think how everything has to do with everything else and many things begin to make sense that never did before. That's just got to make one feel very intelligent and that is a great feeling, for anyone to have, don't you think?