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- Title
Wrinkles, Wormholes, and "Hamlet": The Wooster Group's "Hamlet" as a Challenge to Periodicity.
- Authors
Cook, Amy
- Abstract
The article discusses the production of the play "Hamlet" by the Wooster Group and the challenge it brings to periodicity. In order to argue that the production stages new stories that help people understand themselves differently, the author looked at mirror neurons and evolutionary psychology. A look at cognitive science which, according to author João Branquinho, includes more than the information processing suggested by the term cognition, is provided. The production is said to be focused on the space in between the 1964 film version of Richard Burton's production of "Hamlet" and the play. It relates the belief of psychologist Leda Cosmides and her husband John Tooby that engagement with fiction creates adaptive minds by organizing the brain.
- Subjects
HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare); WOOSTER Group; EVOLUTIONARY psychology; COGNITIVE science; COSMIDES, Leda; TOOBY, John
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2009, Vol 53, Issue 4, p104
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/dram.2009.53.4.104