Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction (Eva Zettelmann and Elke Mettinger) -- Theoretical Approaches -- Consciousness in Drama: A Cognitive Approach (Monika Fludernik) -- Drama and the Representation of Fictional Minds (Eva Zettelmann) -- From Medieval Iconography to Restoration Drama -- Strategic Communication of Pathos and Suffering in Verbal and Visual Medieval Culture (Gabriella Mazzon) -- "Now is this golden crown like a deep well" - Richard II from a Cognitive Point of View (Elke Mettinger) -- "Othello": Personality and Personality Building in Shakespeare's Tragedy and Verdi's Opera (Sabine Coelsch-Foisner) -- The "Macbeth" Trap: Productions of Shakespeare's Play in England, Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Michael Raab) -- "Une Tempête", Aimé Césaire's Subversion of the Imperial Scripts of Shakespeare's Tempest (Christa Knellwolf King) -- The Script of the Body and the Soul in "The Country-Wife" and "Tristram Shandy": the 'Cognitive Turn' from Restoration Drama to Sentimental Fiction (Dieter Fuchs) -- Modern Drama -- The (Im)Possible Worlds of Joe Orton: A Cognitive Approach to "What the Butler Saw" (Caterina Grasl) -- "I understand you not, my lord." - Problems of Cognition and Perception in Tom Stoppard's Plays (Bernhard Reitz) -- John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy - A Cognitive Approach (Wolfgang J. Lippke) -- Pinter's One-Act Plays "One for the Road, Mountain Language", and "Party Time" in the Light of Conceptual Blending Theory (Ewald Mengel) -- Between Authenticity and Objectification: Narrating the Self in Contemporary British Drama (Merle Tönnies) -- "Dennis is a Liar" - Mendacity in the Plays of Dennis Kelly (Eckart Voigts) -- Breaking the Boundaries of Narrative: Post-Dramatic Story-Telling (Christopher Innes) -- Parapsychic Phenomena in Early Twentieth-Century American Drama (Peter Zenzinger).

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