Shakespeare and Consciousness

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, a

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Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

Series Editors Bruce McConachie Department of Theatre Arts University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Blakey Vermeule Department of English Stanford University Stanford, California, USA

This series offers cognitive approaches to understanding perception, emotions, imagination, meaning-making, and the many other activities that constitute both the production and reception of literary texts and embodied performances. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14903

Paul Budra • Clifford Werier Editors

Shakespeare and Consciousness

Editors Paul Budra Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Clifford Werier Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance ISBN 978-1-137-59671-0 ISBN 978-1-137-59541-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59541-6

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For my brother, David Budra PB For my wife, Sabrina Reed CW

SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE

Noam Chomsky started a revolution in human self-understanding and reshaped the intellectual landscape to this day by showing how all languages have deep features in common. Gone—or least retreating—is the idea that the mind is a blank slate. In its wake, fierce debates have broken out about what the mind is and how it works. At stake are some of the most urgent questions facing researchers today: questions about the relationship between brain, mind, and culture; about how human universals express themselves in individual minds and lives; about reason, consciousness, and th