Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons: The Psychology of Role-Playing and Acting
Author:   P. Murray
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1996 ed.
ISBN:  

9780333648360


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   06 May 1996
Format:   Paperback
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Challenging ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, this text proposes characters should be perceived as imagined persons. A new reading of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviourism brings out how - contrary to the impression he created - Skinner ascribes an important role in human behaviour to cognitive activity. Using this analysis, Peter Murray demonstrates the consistency of radical behaviourism with the psychology of character formation and acting in writers from Plato to Shakespeare - an approach little explored in the current debates about subjectivity in Elizabethan culture. Murray also shows that radical behaviourism can explain the phenomena observed in modern studies of acting and social role-playing. Drawing on these analyses of earlier and modern psychology, Murray goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal, Rosalind and Perdita in an alternative light.

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Author:   P. Murray
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1996 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.398kg
ISBN:  

9780333648360


ISBN 10:   0333648366
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   06 May 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Behaviourism of B.F. Skinner - Character Formation and the Psychology of Role-Playing and Acting - Hamlet - Prince Hal, King Henry V - As You Like It - Absorbed Action: 'Sure this robe of mine does change my disposition' - Appendix: The Psychology of Habits - Index

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