Phantasmatic Shakespeare by Suparna Roychoudhury HARDBACK 9781501726552

Phantasmatic Shakespeare\nby Suparna Roychoudhury\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Suparna Roychoudhury\nTitle: Phantasmatic Shakespeare\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: plays and playwrights\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781501726552\nISBN-10: 1501726552\nRRP: \u00A343.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nRepresentations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare's artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions. Phantasmatic Shakespeare examines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind's ability to perceive and imagine. S.