Shakespeare Thinking

by Philip Davis

Shakespearean thinking is always thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method.  Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the latest neurological experiments which show that Shakespeare can reveal new understandings of the hard-wiring of the human brain, and the sheer sudden electricity of its synaptic development.

Genres: Shakespeare, Nonfiction

125 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 15, 2007

About the author

Philip Davis is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology at the University of Liverpool where he was Director of the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society. His publications include Sudden Shakespeare, Shakespeare Thinking, In Mind of Johnson, The Victorians (volume 8 in the new Oxford English Literary History Series), Why Victorian Literature Matters and Reading and The Reader (OUP Literary Agenda Series of which he is general editor). He is currently editing the complete works of Bernard Malamud in three volumes for the Library of America. He is editor of The Reader magazine.

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Author reckons that Shakespeare's poetry works at a pre-conscious level. Interestingly he's done some neuroscience to look into it. Excellent fast read that makes Shakey feel urgent and timely.