Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Pavneet Aulakh, James Kearney, Vanderbilt University) Aulakh, Pavneet (Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of California - Santa Barbara) Kearney, James (Professor of English

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Early modern dramatists entertained audiences by staging experiential and experimental knowledge, especially consequential forms of coming to or arriving at knowledge. The contributors to this collection explore the ways in which the culture’s fascination with forms of knowledge creation – scientific, experiential, religious – shaped early modern drama. Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage addresses these issues from phenomenological, political and ethical perspectives and in terms of histories of science, cognitive and affective studies, and discourses of the body. Across the volume, the contributors articulate how the early modern stage served as a site where knowledge was not merely performed but produced and interrogated, imagined and transformed.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Antal sidor272
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399520836

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Pavneet Aulakh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Vanderbilt University. Primarily positioned at the intersection of seventeenth-century imaginative literature and natural philosophy, he is currently working on his monograph Digesting Bacon in Seventeenth-Century England. James Kearney is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity: Phenomenology, Theater, Experience (2025) and The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England (2010), which won CCL’s Book of the Year Award. With Julia Reinhard Lupton and Lowell Gallagher, he co-edited Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy (2020).

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction: Experimenting with Experience: Virtual Knowledge on the Early Modern English StagePavneet Aulakh, James Kearney and Adam RzepkaPart I. Experiential Knowledge1. Experiencing Shakespeare’s ExperiencesBruce R. Smith 2. Sad Experience: Jaques, Polonius, GloucesterAdam Rzepka Part II. Experimental Forms and Frames3. Theatre as Portal: A Shakespearean Thought ExperimentWendy Beth Hyman4. Fictional Hypothesis, Lived Experience, and Re-worlding in The Tempest Jane Hwang Degenhardt5. Amazement in The TempestJenny C. MannPart III. Embodied Knowledge6. Knowing Instincts in Shakespeare’s Macbeth Katherine Walker 7. Laughing Matters: Violence, Witness and Experiential Knowledge in The Massacre at ParisKatie AdkisonPart IV. Experiential and Experimental Philosophy8. Theatrical Experiments and Experiential Protestants: Shakespearean Iconoclasm in Love’s Labors LostJennifer Waldron9. ‘Boys that play with watry Bubbles’: Innocence and Experience at the Infancy of ScienceElizabeth L. Swann10. Through 'the woods of experience’: Minding the Gaps in the Time of ExperimentPavneet AulakhAfterwordJulia Reinhard LuptonNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex