Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow through Character

Author:   N. Parvini
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
ISBN:  

9781137543158


Pages:   75
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analyse the unique characters that populate his plays. It aims to find a way to reconnect readers and watchers of Shakespeare's plays to the fundamental questions that first animated them. Why does Othello succumb so easily to Iago's manipulations? Why does Anne allow herself to be wooed by Richard III, the man who killed her husband and father? Why does Macbeth go from being a seemingly reasonable man to a cold-blooded killer? Why does Hamlet take so long to kill Claudius? This book aims to answer these questions from a fresh perspective.

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Author:   N. Parvini
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Pivot
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.262kg
ISBN:  

9781137543158


ISBN 10:   1137543159
Pages:   75
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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This is a work of undoubted brilliance, which makes several illuminating points ... . (Elisabetta Tarantino, The Years Work in English Studies, April, 2017)


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Neema Parvini is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. His previous books include Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.

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