Shakespeare Thinking (Shakespeare Now!) - Hardcover

Davis, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826486940 ISBN 13: 9780826486943

Publisher: Continuum, 2009

Synopsis

Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method. Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the latest neurological experiments which show that Shakespeare can reveal new understandings of the hard-wiring of the human brain, and the sheer sudden electricity of its synaptic development.

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Review:

-Mention. Daily Telegraph/April 8, 2007--,

"Shakespeare Thinking is a powerful plea for criticism to engage afresh with Shakespeare's language as the 'quick forge' of a vision that defies paraphrase or synopsis. An urgent, absorbing polemic and a compelling quest to crack the plays' unique poetic code." - Professor Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Mention --Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Tome LXX-2008

Mention -Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Tome LXX-2008

Mention Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Tome LXX-2008

-Mention. Daily Telegraph/ April 8, 2007--,

"Where is Shakespeare now? This question is the brief for a new series of short books from Continuum, an enterprising publisher trying to break down the border between academic literary criticism and books for the thoughtful general reader. Philip Davis's Shakespeare Thinking proposes that Shakespeare's poetry functions like a 'Renaissance brain scanner': his line-endings are a 'form of slow-motion eye-map for actors' voices that offer deep insight into the working of the human brain.' This may sound fanciful, but Davis is such a gifted close reader of the ebb and flow of Shakespearean language that he persuades us he is really on to something." - Jonathan Bate, The Sunday Telegraph --Sanford Lakoff "Sunday Telegraph "

-Mention. Daily Telegraph/ April 8, 2007--Sanford Lakoff

"In Davis's hands these ideas prove utterly exhilarating... This book is essential reading." - Peter G. Platt, Studies in English Literature, Spring 2008--Sanford Lakoff

"Philip Davis's Shakespeare Thinking is...a study more indebted to literary and scientific criticism that to actual Shakespeare production...Davis is perfectly capable of composing a coherent sentence; more often his prose is as clotted as cottage cheese...Davis is an intelligent man, but I would avoid his classroom at the University of Liverpool if I were you." - Robert Brustein, American Theatre, September 2008--Sanford Lakoff

Synopsis:

"Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form. "Shakespeare Now!" recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it doesn't assume we know him already, or that we know the best methods for approaching his plays. "Shakespeare Now!" is a new generation of critics, unafraid of risk, on a series of intellectual adventures. Above all - it is a new Shakespeare, freshly present in each volume. Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method. "Shakespeare Thinking" discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the latest neurological experiments which show that Shakespeare can reveal new understandings of the hard-wiring of the human brain, and the sheer sudden electricity of its synaptic development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0826486940
• ISBN 13: 9780826486943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 124