Cognition in the Globe attention and memory in Shakespeare's theatre / [electronic resource] :
Evelyn B. Tribble.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- xv, 200 p. : ill.
- Cognitive studies in literature and performance .
- Cognitive studies in literature and performance. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Shakespeare's company coped with an enormous mnemonic load, performing up to six different plays a week. How did they do it? Cognition in the Globe addresses this question through the lens of distributed cognition. This is a dynamic model that attends to the art of 'playing' at a range of levels. These include the material conditions of playing space; artifacts such as parts, plots, and playbooks; the social structures of the companies, including methods of training and coordination; internal cognitive mechanisms such as attention, perception, and memory; and actor-audience dynamics, among many others. This is the first book to offer such an approach to theatrical history and performance studies"--
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