TY  - BOOK
AU  - Craik,Katharine A.
AU  - Pollard,Tanya
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Shakespearean sensations: experiencing literature in early modern England 
AV  - PR428.P76 S47 2013
U1  - 820.9/353 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Reading
KW  - Physiological aspects
KW  - Senses and sensation in literature
KW  - Reader-response criticism
KW  - Theater audiences
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction: imagining audiences Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard; Part I. Plays: 1. Feeling fear in Macbeth Allison P. Hobgood; 2. Hearing Iago's withheld confession Allison Deutermann; 3. Self-love, spirituality, and the senses in Twelfth Night Douglas Trevor; Part II. Playhouses: 4. Conceiving tragedy Tanya Pollard; 5. Playing with appetite in early modern comedy Hillary Nunn; 6. Notes towards an analysis of early modern applause Matthew Steggle; 7. Catharsis as 'purgation' in Shakespearean drama Thomas Rist; Part III. Poems: 8. Epigrammatic commotions William Kerwin; 9. Poetic 'making' and moving the soul Margaret Healy; 10. Shakespearean pain Michael Schoenfeldt; Afterword: senses of an ending Bruce R. Smith; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "This strong and timely collection provides fresh insights into how Shakespeare's plays and poems were understood to affect bodies, minds and emotions. Contemporary criticism has had surprisingly little to say about the early modern period's investment in imagining literature's impact on feeling. Shakespearean Sensations brings together scholarship from a range of well-known and new voices to address this fundamental gap. The book includes a comprehensive introduction by Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard and comprises three sections focusing on sensations aroused in the plays; sensations evoked in the playhouse; and sensations found in the imaginative space of the poems. With dedicated essays on Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Twelfth Night, the collection explores how seriously early modern writers took their relationship with their audiences and reveals new connections between early modern literary texts and the emotional and physiological experiences of theatregoers"--
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