Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s TheatreEarly modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is distributed across body, brain, and world. |
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Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre E. Tribble Limited preview - 2011 |
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