Shakespeare’s company coped with an enormous mnemonic load, performing up to six different plays a week. How did they do it? Cognition in the Globe addresses this question through the lens of Distributed Cognition. This is a dynamic model that attends to the art of ‘playing’ at a range of levels. Th
Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre
✍ Scribed by Evelyn B. Tribble (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 211
- Series
- Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-23
The Stuff of Memory....Pages 25-68
Action and Accent: Voice, Gesture, Body, and Mind....Pages 69-110
Social Cognition: Enskillment in the Early Modern Theatre....Pages 111-150
Conclusion: Toward a Model of Cognitive Ecology....Pages 151-166
Back Matter....Pages 167-200
✦ Subjects
Poetry and Poetics; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; Theatre History; British and Irish Literature
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