Description: Drawing on Aristotle's metaphysics and contemporary cognitive literary theory, Arthur Kinney explores five key objects/images in Shakespeare's plays - crowns, bells, rings, graves and ghosts - that are not actually seen but are central to the imagination of both the playwright and the playgoers.
Review Quotes:
'Shakespeare and Cognition is a fascinating and wide-ranging examination of why his plays, whilst rooted in the late sixteenth-early seventeenth century, have retained their appeal for four centuries.' - British Theatre Guide