Embodied cognition and Shakespeare's Theatre the early modern body-mind

• Other Authors: Johnson, Lawrence 1967-, Sutton, John 1965-, Tribble, Evelyn B.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2014
• Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare 10
• Subjects: English drama > History and criticism > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Mind and body in literature; Cognition and culture > History > 16th century > England
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 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.