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The Elizabethan Mind - Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty (Hardcover)
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The Elizabethan Mind - Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty (Hardcover)
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The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind
What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These
questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for
us today-although their answers were often startlingly different.
Shakespeare and his contemporaries believed the mind was governed
by the humours and passions, and was susceptible to the Devil's
interference. In this insightful and wide-ranging account, Helen
Hackett explores the intricacies of Elizabethan ideas about the
mind. This was a period of turbulence and transition, as persistent
medieval theories competed with revived classical ideas and
emerging scientific developments. Drawing on a wealth of sources,
Hackett sheds new light on works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney,
and Spenser, demonstrating how ideas about the mind shaped new
literary and theatrical forms. Looking at their conflicted
attitudes to imagination, dreams, and melancholy, Hackett examines
how Elizabethans perceived the mind, soul, and self, and how their
ideas compare with our own.
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