{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-senses-hardcover","title":"Shakespeare and the Senses - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHolly E. Dugan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of how audiences of Shakespeare's time understood the sensual world of his plays.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\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\u003e Shakespeare and the Senses \u003c\/i\u003eargues that understanding the original conditions in which Shakespeare's plays were performed allows us to explore the senses as both visceral, bodily experiences 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHolly Dugan\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at George Washington University in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48457081979129,"sku":"9780866988940","price":53.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/J8QCYiEv259780866988940.webp?v=1780077317","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/shakespeare-and-the-senses-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}