Knowing Shakespeare

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Lowell Gallagher, Shankar Raman

   Pages 1-29

3. Macbeth and the Perils of Conjecture

   • Sean H. McDowell

   Pages 30-49

4. Eyeing and Wording in Cymbeline

   • Bruce R. Smith

   Pages 50-64

5. “O, she’s warm”: Touch in The Winter’s Tale

   • Evelyn Tribble

   Pages 65-81

6. Falling into Extremity

   • Patricia Cahill

   Pages 82-101

7. Roman World, Egyptian Earth: Cognitive Difference and Empire in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra ¹

   • Mary Thomas Crane

   Pages 102-115

8. Hamlet in Motion

   • Shankar Raman

   Pages 116-136

9. Artifactual Knowledge in Hamlet

   • Howard Marchitello

   Pages 137-153

10. “Rich eyes and poor hands”: Theaters of Early Modern Experience

    • Adam Rzepka

    Pages 154-171

11. “Repeat to me the words of the Echo”: Listening to The Tempest

    • Allison Kay Deutermann

    Pages 172-191

12. Mind the Gaps: The Ear, the Eye, and the Senses of a Woman in Much Ado About Nothing

    • Diana E. Henderson

    Pages 192-215

13. Back Matter

    Pages 216-270

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A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses.

• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• novel
• stage
• theatre
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

• University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  Lowell Gallagher

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA

  Shankar Raman

PATRICIA CAHILL Associate Professor of English at Emory University, USA MARY THOMAS CRANE Rattigan Professor of English at Boston College, USA ALLISON KAY DEUTERMANN Assistant Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA DIANA E. HENDERSON Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA HOWARD MARCHITELLO Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, Rutgers University in Camden, USA SEAN H. MCDOWELL Associate Professor of English at Seattle University, USA ADAM RZEPKA Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Chicago, USA BRUCE R. SMITH Dean's Professor of English and Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern California, USA EVELYN TRIBBLE Donald Collie Chair at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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