Knowing Shakespeare

PATRICIA CAHILL Associate Professor of English at Emory University, USA MARY THOMAS CRANE Rattigan Professor of English at Boston College, USA ALLISON KAY DEUTERMANN Assistant Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA DIANA E. HENDERSON Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA HOWARD MARCHITELLO Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, Rutgers University in Camden, USA SEAN H. MCDOWELL Associate Professor of English at Seattle University, USA ADAM RZEPKA Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Chicago, USA BRUCE R. SMITH Dean's Professor of English and Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern California, USA EVELYN TRIBBLE Donald Collie Chair at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses.A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses.