Shakespeare the Bodger

Investigates Shakespeare’s mode of composition and the way contemporary psychology informs dramatic representation through ekphrasis Describes Shakespeare’s own ingenuity and his dramatizations of ingenuity according to classical and renaissance accounts of this activityExplains and illustrates in his plays the function of fantasy in reading the external world, as described in contemporary psychologyParticipates in the current scholarly interest in the intertextuality of theatrical scriptsTraces