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Shakespeare's Imagined Persons
Peter B. Murray
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Description for Shakespeare's Imagined Persons
Hardback. Challenging ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, this text proposes characters should be perceived as imagined persons. Drawing on analyses of earlier and modern psychology, it goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal and Rosalind. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes we should view his characters as imagined persons. A new reading of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviourism brings out how - contrary to the impression he created - Skinner ascribes an important role in human behaviour to cognitive activity. Using this analysis, Peter Murray demonstrates the consistency of radical behaviourism with the psychology of character formation and acting in writers from Plato to Shakespeare - an approach little explored in the current debates about subjectivity in Elizabethan culture. Murray also shows that radical behaviourism can explain the ... Read more
Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes we should view his characters as imagined persons. A new reading of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviourism brings out how - contrary to the impression he created - Skinner ascribes an important role in human behaviour to cognitive activity. Using this analysis, Peter Murray demonstrates the consistency of radical behaviourism with the psychology of character formation and acting in writers from Plato to Shakespeare - an approach little explored in the current debates about subjectivity in Elizabethan culture. Murray also shows that radical behaviourism can explain the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333634486
SKU
V9780333634486
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About Peter B. Murray
PETER B. MURRAY
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