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...