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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Theseus, phantasia, and the scientific renaissance -- Between heart and eye : anatomies of imagination in the sonnets -- Children of fancy : academic idleness and Love's labour's lost -- Of atoms, air, and insects : Mercutio's "vain fantasy" -- Seeming to see : King Lear's mental optics -- Melancholy, ecstasy, phantasma : the pathologies of Macbeth -- Chimeras : natural history and the shapes of The tempest -- Epilogue : the rude fantasticals. |
| Summary |
"Examines the intersection of early modern psychology and the history of science. It argues that Shakespeare was primarily interested in imagination as a cognitive rather than an aesthetic power"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Literature and science -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Literature and science. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Science in literature.
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Science in literature. |
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Imagination in literature.
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Imagination in literature. |
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Psychology in literature.
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Psychology in literature. |
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Cognition in literature.
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Cognition in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roychoudhury, Suparna. Phantasmatic Shakespeare. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501726552 (DLC) 2018016351 |
| ISBN |
9781501726569 (electronic book) |
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1501726560 (electronic book) |
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9781501726576 |
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1501726579 |
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9781501726552 |
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