Böcker av Amy Cook

My dissertation interrogates theatre and performance theory through the lens ofrecent developments in cognitive science. I explore the power of poetry inperformance to illuminate the connection and seams between body and language, actor and character, fact and fiction. I reexamine some of the work of new criticsand new historicists given the latest developments within neuroscience and suggesta path of integration between the sciences and literary and theatre theory. Ratherthan simply referencing scientific research as supplemental evidentiary material toa re-reading of Hamlet, I investigate how cognitive science can unveilShakespeare's textual theatrics and spot light blind spots in theatre and performancetheory.

Delve into this poetry collection's imaginative and expressive world, where everyday objects, animals, and feelings are brought to life through a creative mind. From household pets to relatable emotions, each poem creatively explores the world around us. With some funny twists and hard truths, the poems in this collection show the positives and the negatives of being able to imagine outside the box whilst showing the world through someone else's eyes for you to experience for yourself.

This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017-2020 to demonstrate how directors are using casting as the central mode of meaning-making in productions of Shakespeare.

What can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film - the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character examines how the process of ""casting"" an actor in a part creates a character and how this can be usefully understood through deploying theories from the cognitive sciences.