Shakespeare and Consciousness (eBook)

Paul Budra is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the author of A Mirror for Magistrates and the de Casibus Tradition and co-editor of the essay collections: Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel, Soldier Talk: Oral Narratives of the Vietnam War, and From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom.Clifford Werier is Professor of English at Mount Royal University, Canada. He is co-editor of Much Ado About Nothing for the Internet Shakespeare Editions and has written three writing textbooks for Nelson, Canada.

Dedication 6
Series Editors’ Preface 8
Acknowledgments 12
Contents 14
Chapter 1: Introduction 16
Part I: Consciousness, Cognitive Science, and Character 31
Chapter 2: Consciousness and Cognition in Shakespeare and Beyond 32
Consciousness and the Cognitive 35
Shakespeare and Consciousness 44
Chapter 3: Shakespeare Studies and Consciousness 56
Where We Were 60
Where We Are 69
Where Are We Going? 79
Chapter 4: Hamlet in the Bat Cave 91
What Is It Like to Be Hamlet? 91
Part II: Consciousness and Theatrical Practice 109
Chapter 5: King of Shadows: Early Modern Characters and Actors 110
Interdisciplinary Character 111
Building Character 117
Brilliant Failure 122
Chapter 6: The Distributed Consciousness of Shakespeare’s Theatre 130
Chapter 7: Minds at Work: Writing, Acting, Watching, Reading Hamlet 150
Consciousness, Conscience and the Cognitive Value of Ambiguity 151
Theater, Consciousness, and Theory of Mind 155
Creating Character 156
Who’s There? 162
Reading Shakespeare 167
Part III: Consciousness and the Body 173
Chapter 8: “Being Unseminared”: Pleasure, Instruction, and Playing the Queen in Anthony and Cleopatra 174
Artificial Changelings 177
Shakespeare’s Seminars 184
Conclusions Infinite 189
Chapter 9: Bodies and Selves: Autoscopy, Out-of-Body Experiences, Mind-Wandering and Early Modern Consciousness 199
Chapter 10: Hamlet and Time-Consciousness: A Neurophenomenological Reading 222
Cognitive Science and Historical Information 226
First-Person Reports and Cognitive Science 227
First-Person Reports and Historical Information 227
Hamlet and Time-Consciousness 228
Part IV: Consciousness, Emotion, and Memory 253
Chapter 11: Shylock’s Shy Conscience: Consciousness and Conversion in The Merchant of Venice 254
Chapter 12: Forgetting Cleopatra 272
Distributed Memory 274
Antony and Cleopatra 280
Notes on Contributors 298
Index 301