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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 classically trained actor who has a keen ear for accents and loves to bring characters to life. The narrator of books in numerous genres, she delights in new challenges.

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