Shakespeare and Consciousness

1. Introduction
Paul Budra, Clifford Werier

Part I. Consciousness, Cognitive Science, and Character

2. Consciousness and Cognition in Shakespeare and Beyond
Clifford Werier

3. Shakespeare Studies and Consciousness
Edward Pechter

4. Hamlet in the Bat Cave
Paul Budra

Part II. Consciousness and Theatrical Practice

5. King of Shadows: Early Modern Characters and Actors
Amy Cook

6. The Distributed Consciousness of Shakespeare’s Theatre
Laurie Johnson

7. Minds at Work: Writing, Acting, Watching, Reading Hamlet

Ros King

Part III. Consciousness and the Body

8. “Being Unseminared”: Pleasure, Instruction, and Playing the Queen in Anthony and Cleopatra

Andrew Brown

9. Bodies and Selves: Autoscopy, Out-of-Body Experiences, Mind-Wandering and Early Modern Consciousness
Jan Purnis

10.
Hamlet and Time-Consciousness: A Neurophenomenological Reading
Matthew Kibbee

Part IV. Consciousness, Emotion, and Memory

11. Shylock’s Shy Conscience: Consciousness and Conversion in The Merchant of Venice

Tiffany Hoffman

12. Forgetting Cleopatra
Elizabeth Hodgson

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, European Literature, Literary Theory, Cognitive Psychology