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Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow Through Character

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"Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analyse the unique characters that populate his plays. It aims to find a way to reconnect readers and watchers of Shakespeare's plays to the fundamental questions that first animated them. Why does Othello succumb so easily to Iago's manipulations? Why does Anne allow herself to be wooed by Richard III, the man who killed her husband and father? Why does Macbeth go from being a ...

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Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow Through Character 2015, Palgrave Pivot, London

ISBN-13: 9781137543158

2015 edition

Hardcover