294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cognitive approaches to drama have enriched our understanding of Early Modern playtexts, acting and spectatorship. This monograph is the first full-length study of Shakespeare’s props and their cognitive impact. Shakespeare’s most iconic props have become transhistorical, transnational metonyms for their plays: a strawberry-spotted handkerchief instantly recalls Othello ; a skull Hamlet . One... Read more
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
Biography
Dr. Sophie Duncan is a Fellow in English at Christ Church College, University of Oxford.
