Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare's Theatre

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.

Author: E. Tribble
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/29/2011
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230110854

About the Author
EVELYN TRIBBLE Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of Writing Material: Readings from Plato to the Digital Age (with Anne Trubek) and Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England.