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Shakespeare and Cognition

Thinking Fast and Slow through Character

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Neema Parvini

    1. University of Surrey, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Why Characters Matter in Shakespeare’s Plays

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    Pages 1-11

  3. Key Concepts: Dual-Process Theory, Heuristics and Biases

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    Pages 12-22

  4. ‘Teach Me How to Flatter You’: Persuasion

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    Pages 23-35

  5. Iago, Othello and Trait Ascription Bias

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    Pages 36-51

  6. ‘And Reason Panders Will’: Another Look at Hamlet’s Analysis Paralysis

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    Pages 52-62

  7. Concluding Note

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    Pages 63-67

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 68-75
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About this book

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 seemingly reasonable man to a cold-blooded killer? Why does Hamlet take so long to kill Claudius? This book aims to answer these questions from a fresh perspective.

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“This is a work of undoubted brilliance, which makes several illuminating points … .” (Elisabetta Tarantino, The Years Work in English Studies, April, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Surrey, UK

    Neema Parvini

About the author

Neema Parvini is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. His previous books include Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.

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