This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the
jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility. Confronting a …

Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare's artistic imagination, as
we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is …

Is it possible to be a posthumanist without affirming life? Must a posthuman materialism
necessarily be lively? Recent contemporary new materialists—as part of their project to …

This article describes a seventeenth-century English woman writer's interests in medical
care and the reasons that led her to publish texts on this topic. Hannah Woolley offered …

Positioning Theory (PT) first emerged in the 1980s in psychology studies to investigate how
people occupy and negotiate their place—both physical and social—while interacting with …

English domestic recipe manuscripts make clear that early modern households required a
great deal of water, and these texts offer surprising glimpses into the significance placed on …

Focusing on Robert Hooke's spectacular 1665 Micrographia and Thomas Shadwell's 1676
satire of Hooke and other members of the early Royal Society, The Virtuoso, this essay …

This introduction discusses some of the differences between modern and early modern
ideas about literature and science. In the twenty-first century, literature and literary studies …

This article argues that Hester Pulter's physics—her philosophy of matter and the cosmos—
is inextricable from her poetics. The essay offers an overview of Pulter's varying, sometimes …

Bacon's “idols” of the mind are frequently cited, but discussion of the idols tends to focus on
the metaphorical terms “tribe,”“cave,”“marketplace,” and “theater.” Less consideration has …