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Disembodied? Elizabethan Minds and Bodies

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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How were mind and body imagined in Elizabethan England? In this workshop Helen Hackett will lead us in reading and discussing some of the texts she read for her book The Elizabethan Mind (Yale UP, 2022). After booking you will receive selected passages for advance reading, as well as access to Chapter 2 of the book, 'Mind Against Body: Philosophical and Religious Frameworks'. We appreciate not everyone will have time to read all these materials, but do take a look if you can. Please join us to tell us your thoughts on the swirling patterns of Elizabethan minds and bodies, and to think more about Helen’s book.

For the event passages will be read by Deepali Foster.

Deepali is currently theatre-making whilst working for a charity called Envision, which empowers young people from less advantaged backgrounds. She is co-directing a production of Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure, which will be staged this summer.

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Speakers
  • Helen Hackett -

    Helen Hackett has written widely on Shakespeare, women's writing and literary culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. This is an opportunity to hear her most recent ideas about the how the uncertainties of the Elizabethans shaped the ideas, words and images of the mind.

    https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/?k=9780300207200