Shakespeare's Props: Memory and Cognition

ISBN-13: 9781138291225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 278 str.

Sophie Duncan

Opis

Cognitive approaches to drama have enriched our understanding of Early Modern playtexts, acting and spectatorship. This monograph explores Shakespeare’s props and their cognitive impact, illuminating Shakespeare’s exploration of extended cognition, recollection and remembrance.

Spis treści

Introduction. Chapter 1: Books, Boxes, Brains: Recollection as Weapon in Hamlet. Chapter 2: ‘Washing the Ethiope white’: Biography of a Handkerchief. Chapter 3: ‘Pictures in little’: Forensics and Faces. Chapter 4: Broaching the Tadpole: Babies and Corpses. Chapter 5: ‘He’s useless without his books’: Forgetting Through Props. Conclusions

O autorze

Dr. Sophie Duncan is a Fellow in English at Christ Church College, University of Oxford.