Performance and Cognition

Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn

Bruce McConachie editor F Elizabeth Hart editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:2nd Feb '10

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This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.

Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors examine:

  • the interfaces between cognitive studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenology and communication theory
  • different ideas from cognitive studies that open up the meanings of several plays
  • the process of acting and the work of Antonio Damasio
  • theatrical response: the dynamics of perception, and the riots that greeted the 1907 production of The Playboy of the Western World.

This original and authoritative work will be attractive to scholars and graduate students of drama, theatre, and performance.

ISBN: 9780415583398

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 470g

240 pages