'… original and imaginative book … Recommended.' D. Pesta, Choice Connect
1. 'A spectacle to men and angells': Juliet Capulet and the case of Mary Glover; 2. 'Imagination helps me': liberating brainwork in Comus, Othello, and The Two Noble Kinsmen; 3. 'The progresse of an art': daughters and the invention of new knowledges; 4. 'If I should tell / My history': memory, trauma, and testimony in Pericles and Hamlet; 5. 'Put on the minde': cognitive play in Gallathea, The Winter's Tale, and The Convent of Pleasure; 6. 'From thirteene Yeares … resolved to serve God': Mary Ward's adolescent brainwork.