The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty

by Helen Hackett

Book Overview

The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind

What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for us today--although their answers were often startlingly different. Shakespeare and his contemporaries believed the mind was governed by the humours and passions, and was susceptible to the Devil's interference.

In this insightful and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300207204
• ISBN13: 9780300207200
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"