That Within Which Passeth Show: Interiority, Religion, and the Cognitive Poetics of Hamlet

摘要: Shakespeare's Hamlet emerged at a moment of social transition between Catholic England and Protestant England. The accidents entailments this particular culture emerge in the text through images, metaphors, polysemy, ideational conceits, as well unique forms linguistic expression dramatic signification. Reading theological disputes, architecture, discursive encryption, public performances day another form historical expressive text, informing that reading with latest theories post-Whig English history, dissertation uses information so-gathered to perform close re-reading explore way cognitive primitive—the schema INSIDE/OUTSIDE—is expressed multiply polysemic web It is suggested not only turning point England, but strongly figured homo religiosus Medieval Europe modern European subject. This marked by split private self correlated creation secular, Western cordoned off from increasingly complex pluralistic religious culture.