LEADER 03901nam 2200541 450 001 9910466954003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-2656-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501726569 035 $a(CKB)4100000007005364 035 $a(OCoLC)1031428521 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67673 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5561656 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002048893 035 $a(DE-B1597)503541 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501726569 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5561656 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11626280 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007005364 100 $a20181116d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPhantasmatic Shakespeare $eimagination in the age of early modern science /$fSuparna Roychoudhury 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource.) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5017-2655-2 311 $a1-5017-2657-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Theseus, Phantasia, and the Scientific Renaissance -- $tChapter 1. Between Heart and Eye Anatomies of Imagination in the Sonnets -- $tChapter 2. Children of Fancy Academic Idleness and Love's Labor's Lost -- $tChapter 3. Of Atoms, Air, and Insects: Mercutio's Vain Fantasy -- $tChapter 4. Seeming to See: King Lear's Mental Optics -- $tChapter 5. Melancholy, Ecstasy, Phantasma The Pathologies of Macbeth -- $tChapter 6. Chimeras Natural History and the Shapes of The Tempest -- $tEpilogue The Rude Fantasticals -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aRepresentations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare's artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions. Phantasmatic Shakespeare examines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind's ability to perceive and imagine. Suparna Roychoudhury argues that Shakespeare's portrayal of the imagination participates in sixteenth-century psychological discourse and reflects also how fields of anatomy, medicine, mathematics, and natural history jolted and reshaped conceptions of mentality. Although the new sciences did not displace the older psychology of phantasms, they inflected how Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians thought and wrote about the brain's image-making faculty. The many hallucinations, illusions, and dreams scattered throughout Shakespeare's works exploit this epistemological ferment, deriving their complexity from the ambiguities raised by early modern science.Phantasmatic Shakespeare considers aspects of imagination that were destabilized during Shakespeare's period-its place in the brain; its legitimacy as a form of knowledge; its pathologies; its relation to matter, light, and nature-reading these in concert with canonical works such as King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Shakespeare, Roychoudhury shows, was influenced by paradigmatic epistemic shifts of his time, and he in turn demonstrated how the mysteries of cognition could be the subject of powerful art. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aLiterature and science$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 676 $a822.33 700 $aRoychoudhury$b Suparna$01038334 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466954003321 996 $aPhantasmatic Shakespeare$92459857 997 $aUNINA