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"Hackett has synthesized an extraordinary range of books to illuminate aspects of the Elizabethan mind...Readers will come away equipped to read Shakespeare and his contemporaries with renewed understanding. -- ""Jonathan Bate, author of Soul of the Age"" Hackett's extraordinary achievement in The Elizabethan Mind combines learning and empathy as she ranges across cognitive, emotional, spiritual, and physiological approaches. Come for Hamlet, stay for female complaint, Catholic poetics, sonnets, psychomachia, and much more. -- ""Emma Smith, author of This Is Shakespeare"" Wonderfully perceptive and illuminating. If you want to understand how the Elizabethans viewed themselves, each other, and the world, read this book. -- ""Elizabeth Goldring, author of Nicholas Hilliard"""

Hackett has synthesized an extraordinary range of books to illuminate aspects of the Elizabethan mind...Readers will come away equipped to read Shakespeare and his contemporaries with renewed understanding. -- Jonathan Bate, author of Soul of the Age Hackett's extraordinary achievement in The Elizabethan Mind combines learning and empathy as she ranges across cognitive, emotional, spiritual, and physiological approaches. Come for Hamlet, stay for female complaint, Catholic poetics, sonnets, psychomachia, and much more. -- Emma Smith, author of This Is Shakespeare Wonderfully perceptive and illuminating. If you want to understand how the Elizabethans viewed themselves, each other, and the world, read this book. -- Elizabeth Goldring, author of Nicholas Hilliard

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Helen Hackett is professor of English literature at University College London. An expert on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, she is the author of Shakespeare and Elizabeth and A Short History of English Renaissance Drama. Helen Lloyd is a British actor and voice artist who recorded her first voice-over at the age of fourteen. Since then, she has spent much of her life interpreting other people's words and bringing characters to life. A classically trained actor, she has performed with many of Britain's leading repertory theaters, as well as at the Edinburgh Festival, the Roundhouse, and on the West End.

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