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

ISBN-13: 9781138000759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 280 str.

Laurence 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. Informed by "The Body in Parts," the essays in this book respond also to the notion of an early modern body-mind in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are understood in terms of bodily parts and cognitive processes. What might the impact of such understandings be on our picture of Shakespeare s theatre or on our histories of the early modern period, broadly speaking? This book provides a wide range of approaches to this challenge, covering histories of cognition, studies of early modern stage practices, textual studies, and historical phenomenology, as well as new cultural histories by some of the key proponents of this approach at the present time. Because of the breadth of material covered, full weight is given to issues that are hotly debated at the present time within Shakespeare Studies: presentist scholarship is presented alongside more historically-focused studies, for example, and phenomenological studies of material culture are included along with close readings of texts. What the contributors have in common is a refusal to read the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries either psychologically "or" materially; instead, these essays address a willingness to study early modern phenomena (like the Elizabethan stage) as manifesting an early modern belief in the embodiment of cognition."

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