Phantasmatic Shakespeare imagination in the age of early modern science / Suparna Roychoudhury.

Contents Introduction : Theseus, phantasia, and the scientific renaissance -- Between heart and eye : anatomies of imagination in the sonnets -- Children of fancy : academic idleness and Love's labour's lost -- Of atoms, air, and insects : Mercutio's "vain fantasy" -- Seeming to see : King Lear's mental optics -- Melancholy, ecstasy, phantasma : the pathologies of Macbeth -- Chimeras : natural history and the shapes of The tempest -- Epilogue : the rude fantasticals.
Abstract "Examines the intersection of early modern psychology and the history of science. It argues that Shakespeare was primarily interested in imagination as a cognitive rather than an aesthetic power"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Roychoudhury, Suparna, author. Phantasmatic Shakespeare Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501726552
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