By E. Tribble
ISBN-10: 0230110851
ISBN-13: 9780230110854
Shakespeare’s corporation coped with a big mnemonic load, appearing as much as six various performs every week. How did they do it? Cognition within the Globe addresses this question during the lens of dispensed Cognition. it is a dynamic version that attends to the artwork of ‘playing’ at more than a few degrees. those contain the fabric stipulations of enjoying house; artifacts comparable to components, plots, and playbooks; the social constructions of the corporations, together with equipment of educating and coordination; inner cognitive mechanisms akin to consciousness, notion, and reminiscence; and actor-audience dynamics, between many others. this can be the 1st publication to provide such an method of theatrical heritage and function reviews.
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Indd 41 2/11/2011 2:37:50 PM 42 COGNITION IN THE GLOBE direction for Richard to “come down” onto a searing sense of the symbolic nature of the descent: “Down, down I come like glistering Phaeton . . 10 But there is no ambiguity here about the stage management of the space, as the dialogue makes the action more than evident. In contrast, the evidence for the actual deployment of the “visual eminence” (2001: 65) of the central door is extremely scanty, as Gurr and Ichikawa acknowledge (2000: 104).
Indd 18 2/11/2011 2:44:54 PM INTRODUCTION 19 Distributed Cognition would predict, these elements are not easily separable, and my account stresses their interplay and the uneven and shifting relationships among them. Chapter 1, “The Stuff of Memory,” examines the tools, artifacts, and environments that comprised the early modern playing system. These included the parts distributed to individual players; the playbook held by the company; the plots that tracked part assignments and prescribed entrances and important stage business; and the material surround of the theatre, particularly the doors.
As theorists that include Hart, Patrick Colm Hogan (2003), and David Herman (2003) have pointed out, a “cognitive turn” in the humanities does not necessitate adopting a universalizing or essentializing stance. indd 17 2/11/2011 2:44:54 PM 18 COGNITION IN THE GLOBE valuable contributions to Shakespearean criticism that employ a historically inflected cognitive approach. Chief among these is Mary Thomas Crane’s Shakespeare’s Brain. Crane adopts a range of cognitive approaches, including Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory, in a historically nuanced discussion of “the cognitive and cultural forces that determine the meanings of words and the shape of subjectivity” (2001: 25).
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