Shakespeare and Consciousness

Book Overview

This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation that constitute consciousness and the conditions of reception in our past and present encounters with Shakespeare's works. Acknowledging previous work on inwardness, self, self-consciousness,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349955566
• ISBN13: 9781349955565
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"