Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons: The Psychology of Role-Playing and ActingSpringer, 1996 M05 10 - 256 páginas 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 phenomena observed in modern studies of acting and social role-playing. Drawing on these analyses of earlier and modern psychology, Murray goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal, Rosalind, and Perdita in a fascinating new light. |
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... explain how the psychology of his time and ours can be used to support this thesis . I want to make clear what my thesis does and does not entail . I will not argue that Shakespeare's characters are psychologically realistic in every ...
... explain how the psychology of his time and ours can be used to support this thesis . I want to make clear what my thesis does and does not entail . I will not argue that Shakespeare's characters are psychologically realistic in every ...
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... explain this important aspect of the Elizabethan psy- chology of acting and of audience response more fully . Quintilian , whose Institutio Oratoria was studied in schools in the Renaissance , wrote that orators ' words should re ...
... explain this important aspect of the Elizabethan psy- chology of acting and of audience response more fully . Quintilian , whose Institutio Oratoria was studied in schools in the Renaissance , wrote that orators ' words should re ...
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... explanation of how the way we play a role affects and is affected by our thoughts and feelings . I first read much of ... explain- ing behavior : I was particularly interested in explaining how conduct and intentions relate to each other ...
... explanation of how the way we play a role affects and is affected by our thoughts and feelings . I first read much of ... explain- ing behavior : I was particularly interested in explaining how conduct and intentions relate to each other ...
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... explanation of radical behaviorism that especially brings out the functions of cognitions . ) Skinner's work enables us to offer an unusually fine - grained analysis of the way a person - or an imagined person - responds to a situation ...
... explanation of radical behaviorism that especially brings out the functions of cognitions . ) Skinner's work enables us to offer an unusually fine - grained analysis of the way a person - or an imagined person - responds to a situation ...
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... explains that " the materialist conception of subjectivity , ... in so far as it retains the concept of essence , construes it not as that which is eternally fixed but as social potential materialising within limiting historical ...
... explains that " the materialist conception of subjectivity , ... in so far as it retains the concept of essence , construes it not as that which is eternally fixed but as social potential materialising within limiting historical ...
Contenido
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2 The Behaviorism of B F Skinner | 23 |
3 Character Formation and the Psychology of Roleplaying and Acting | 38 |
4 Hamlet | 57 |
5 Prince Hal King Henry V | 103 |
6 As You Like It | 146 |
Sure this robe of mine does change my disposition | 173 |
The Psychology of Habits | 179 |
Notes | 199 |
215 | |
Index of Names | 245 |
251 | |
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Shakespeare's Imagined Persons: The Psychology of Role-playing and Acting Peter B. Murray Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons: The Psychology of Role-Playing and Acting P. Murray Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons: The Psychology of Role-Playing and Acting P. Murray Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
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