Shakespeare and Consciousness

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Paul Budra and Clifford Werier
I: Consciousness, Cognitive Science, and Character
1. Consciousness and Cognition in Shakespeare and Beyond, Clifford Werier
2. Shakespeare Studies and Consciousness, Edward Pechter
3. Hamlet in the Bat Cave, Paul Budra
II: Consciousness and Theatrical Practice
4. King of Shadows: Early Modern Characters and Actors, Amy Cook
5. The Distributed Consciousness of Shakespeare's Theatre, Laurie Johnson
6. Minds at work: writing, acting, watching, reading Hamlet, Ros King
III: Consciousness and the Body
7. "Being Unseminared": Pleasure, Instruction, and Playing the Queen in Anthony and Cleopatra, Andrew Brown
8. Bodies and Selves: Autoscopy, Out-of-Body Experiences, Mind-Wandering and Early Modern 9. Consciousness, Jan Purnis
10. Hamlet and Time-Consciousness: A Neurophenomenological Reading, Matthew Kibbee
IV: Consciousness, Emotion, and Memory
11. Shylock's Shy Conscience: Consciousness, Power and Conversion in The Merchant of Venice, Tiffany Hoffman
12. Forgetting Cleopatra, Elizabeth Hodgson
Notes on the Contributors