{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-senses-holly-e-dugan-9780866986960","title":"Shakespeare and the Senses","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e explores how audiences of Shakespeare's time would have understood the sensual world of his work. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Could something as seemingly natural as a smell, taste, sight, or sound be socially constructed and change over time? \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e argues that understanding the original conditions in which Shakespeare's plays were performed allows us to explore the senses as both visceral, bodily experience and constructed, social phenomena. As Ben Jonson famously wrote in the First Folio of 1623, Shakespeare can seem to be \"not of an age, but for all time.\" While this is clever marketing, Shakespeare did write his plays in a particular time and place far removed from our own. Many of his most powerful metaphors rely on sensory details--Aaron's black hue; Cleopatra's strange, invisible perfumes; Fluellen's Welsh accent; Lady Macbeth's overly scrubbed hands; Malvolio's yellow stockings--which Elizabethan-era audiences may have understood very differently from us. \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e draws on interdisciplinary research methods in the new field of sensory studies to expand our understanding of what Shakespeare meant to his first audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Holly E. Dugan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0866986960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780866986960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Holly E. Dugan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070873956607,"sku":"9780866986960","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a529a62-4cdb-4975-9737-bafca8973116.jpg?v=1685432833","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-the-senses-holly-e-dugan-9780866986960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}