The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind
In this insightful and wide-ranging account, Helen Hackett explores the intricacies of Elizabethan ideas about the mind. Looking at their conflicted attitudes to imagination, dreams, and melancholy, Hackett sheds new light on works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney, and Spenser?demonstrating how ideas about the mind shaped new literary and theatrical forms.<