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Shakespeare, Mind and World – Dr Tom MacFaul (Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)

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Shakespeare and the Brain
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Tom discusses how Shakespeare’s age thought about thinking. In particular, he looks at the transformative power of thought and the idea in some of Shakespeare’s works that the mind is free to create its own world.

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Series
Shakespeare and the Brain
People
Tom MacFaul
Keywords
shakespeare
brain
neuroscience
literature
mind
Renaissance literature
drama
Department: St Edmund Hall
Date Added: 12/12/2016
Duration: 00:37:51

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