Shakespearean sensations : experiencing literature in early modern England /

"This strong and timely collection provides fresh insights into how Shakespeare's plays and poems were understood to affect bodies, minds and emotions. Contemporary criticism has had surprisingly little to say about the early modern period's investment in imagining literature's i...

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Other Authors: Craik, Katharine A., Pollard, Tanya
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: imagining audiences / Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard
  • Part One: Plays
  • Feeling fear in Macbeth / Allison P. Hobgood
  • Hearing Iago's withheld confession / Allison K. Deutermann
  • Self-love, spirituality, and the senses in Twelfth Night / Douglas Trevor
  • Part Two: Playhouses
  • Conceiving tradgedy / Tanya Pollard
  • Playing with appetitie in early modern comedy / Hillary M. Nunn
  • 6. Notes towards an analysis of earyly modern applause / Matthew Steggle
  • Catharsis as "purgation" in Shakespearean drama / Thomas Rist
  • Epigrammatic commotions / William Kerwin
  • Poetic "making" and moving the soul / Margaret Healy
  • Shakespearean pain / Michael Schoenfeldt
  • Afterword: Senses of an ending / Bruce R. Smith.