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Challenging ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, this text proposes characters should be perceived 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 an alternative light.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Shakespeare's Imagined Persons
• Subtitle: The Psychology of Role-Playing and Acting
• Author: Peter B. Murray
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780333634486
• ISBN: 0333634489
• ID: 04596515
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 490 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 216 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. May 1996

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