Shakespearean neuroplay
Subtitle: reinvigorating the study of dramatic texts and performance through cognitive science
By: Amy Cook.
Series: Cognitive studies in literature and performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780230105478
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Language; Drama -- Psychological aspects; Theater -- Psychological aspects; Semantics (Philosophy)
Description: Shakespearean Neuroplay provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama and performance. With Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and the cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the "mirror held up to nature" at the center of Shakespeare's play. Hamlet's mirror becomes a conceptual structure that invisibly scaffolds our understanding of the play. A lucid explanation of both contemporary science and Hamlet, Shakespearean Neuroplay unveils Shakespeare's textual theatrics and sheds light on blind spots in theatre and performance theory.
Table of contents: title: Who's there?; title: Linguistic synaesthesia; title: Mirror  mirror; mirror  rorrim; title: A cognitive linguistic reading of Hamlet's meaning superflux; title: Play's the thing : a cognitive linguistic performance analysis; title: Past/future, microscope/telescope, performance/science; title: Conclusion : a dying voice.