Jones, Gwilym 2024. “No darkness but Ignorance” : Thinking Foggily in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama. in: Helms, N. and Mentz, S. (ed.) Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature Amsterdam University Press. pp. 199-216
| Chapter title | “No darkness but Ignorance” : Thinking Foggily in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama |
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| Authors | Jones, Gwilym |
| Editors | Helms, N. and Mentz, S. |
| Abstract | Fog, and its relationship to thinking and mental states, is a frequently employed metaphor in early modern English. This essay considers the range of these uses, positioning meteorological, poetic, and dramatic examples, particularly Shakespeare’s, against those of early humoral thinkers, such as Robert Burton and Thomas Bright. In order to explore these examples further, a number of studies from experimental cognitive linguistics are then introduced and connected to theatre studies in particular. The final section of the essay builds on these foundations to develop a close reading of the fog in Thomas Middleton’s The Triumphs of Truth. In particular, it considers what the salience of the fog-ignorance metaphor means for a cognitive analysis centered on the incoming mayor of Jacobean London. |
| Book title | Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature |
| Page range | 199-216 |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
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| Published | Apr 2024 |
| ISBN | 9789048557608 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724791_ch09 |
| Journal | Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature |