Experiential and experimental knowledge on the early modern English stage / edited by Pavneet Aulakh and James Kearney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aulakh, Pavneet, editor.

Kearney, James (James Joseph), editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--Themes, motives.

Knowledge, Sociology of, in literature.

English drama--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

monochrome

illustration

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2026]

Summary:

"Early modern dramatists entertained audiences by staging experiential and experimental knowledge, especially consequential forms of coming to or arriving at knowledge. The contributors to this collection explore the ways in which the culture's fascination with forms of knowledge creation - scientific, experiential, religious - shaped early modern drama. Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage addresses these issues from phenomenological, political and ethical perspectives and in terms of histories of science, cognitive and affective studies, and discourses of the body. Across the volume, the contributors articulate how the early modern stage served as a site where knowledge was not merely performed but produced and interrogated, imagined and transformed."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Experiencing Shakespeare's Experiences / Bruce R. Smith

Sad Experience: Jaques, Polonius, Gloucester / Adam Rzepka

Theatre as Portal: A Shakespearean Thought Experiment / Wendy Beth Hyman

Fictional Hypothesis, Lived Experience and Re-worlding in The Tempest / Jane Degenhardt

Amazement in The Tempest / Jenny C. Mann

Knowing Instincts in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Katherine Walker

Laughing Matters: Violence, Witness and Experiential Knowledge in The Massacre at Paris / Katie Adkison

Theatrical Experiments and Experiential Protestants: Shakespearean Iconoclasm in Love's Labors Lost / Jennifer Waldron

'Boys that play with watry Bubbles': Innocence and Experience at the Infancy of Science / Elizabeth L. Swann

Through 'the woods of experience': Minding the Gaps in the Time of Experiment / Pavneet Aulakh

Afterword / Julia Reinhard Lupton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Experiential and experimental knowledge on the early modern English stage.

ISBN:

9781399520836

1399520830

OCLC:

1579847699

Publisher Number:

CIPO000353601