Screen LibraryShakespeare's props : memory and cognition /
"Shakespeare's most famous props have become transhistorical, transnational metonyms for their plays: a strawberry-spotted handkerchief instantly recalls Othello; a skull, Hamlet. This book reveals the cognitive impact of Shakespeare's props. Departing from the longstanding tendency t...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge studies in Shakespeare ;
36 |
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| Summary: |
"Shakespeare's most famous props have become transhistorical, transnational metonyms for their plays: a strawberry-spotted handkerchief instantly recalls Othello; a skull, Hamlet. This book reveals the cognitive impact of Shakespeare's props. Departing from the longstanding tendency to conceptualise props as detachable body parts, this monograph argues for props as detachable parts of the mind. Through props, Shakespeare's characters reveal their own cognition and intervene in the cognition of other characters, illuminating and extending their affect. Shakespeare's props are neither static i |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-267) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138291225 1138291226 |
| Index Number: | PR2976 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Call Number: | I561.073/D912-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction: props and cognition -- "Must I remember?": objects, recollection, and grief in Hamlet -- "Washing the Ethiope White": biography of a handkerchief -- "Picture[s] in little": Hamlet the curator -- Babies and corpses -- Broken props and the battle to forget -- Epilogue: the politics of props. |