Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare's Theatre: The Early Modern Body-Mind

ISBN-13: 9781032242927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Laurie Johnson; John Sutton; Evelyn Tribble

Opis

This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare’s world. The essays examine Shakespeare’s theatre in terms of an early modern ‘body-mind,’ covering histories of cognition, studies of early modern stage practices, textual studies, and h

Spis treści

Introduction: Re-cognising the Body-Mind in Shakespeare’s Theatre Laurie Johnson, John Sutton, and Evelyn Tribble  1. Proteus Agonistes: Shakespeare, Bacon, and the "Torture" of Nature David Hawkes  2. Plays, Playing, and Make-believe: Thinking and Feeling in Shakespearean Drama Ros King  3. Warmth and Affection in 1 Henry IV: Why No One Likes Prince Hal Emma Firestone  First Link: Subjectivity and the Mind-Body: Extending the Self on the Renaissance Stage Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.  4. "Some Fury Pricks Me On": Satanic Thinking in Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness Mary Floyd-Wilson  5. Mental Bodies in Much Ado About Nothing James A. Knapp  Second Link: The Unbearable Permeability of Bodies and Minds Michael Schoenfeldt  6. "Make Me Not Sighted Like the Basilisk": Vision and Contagion in The Winter’s Tale Darryl Chalk  7. Singularity in The Winter’s Tale Hardin Aasand  Third Link: Seeing the Spider: Cognitive Ecologies in The Winter’s Tale Gail Kern Paster  8. "There’s magic in the web of it": Skin, Mind, and Webs of Touch in Othello Jennifer Rae McDermott  9. Coriolanus’s Blush Tiffany Hoffman  Fourth Link: The Play of Time in Cognition Katherine Rowe  10. Altered States: Hamlet and Early Modern Head Trauma Lianne Habinek  11. Cogito Ergo Theatrum: Redistributing Cognition on the Early Modern Stage Laurie Johnson  12. The Belly-Mind Relationship in Early Modern Culture: Digestion, Ventriloquism, and the Second Brain Jan Purnis  Postscriptum David Hillman and Carla Mazzio

O autorze

Laurie Johnson is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia

John Sutton is Professor of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Australia

Evelyn Tribble is Donald Collie Chair of English at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand