Nathan Pensky is an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University. He has published work in Early Theater and Early Modern Literary Studies and in non-academic outlets, including The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Boston Globe, and many others. His interests of study include early modern literature, hermeneutics, ethics and philosophy of mind.

This book promises to reshape our understanding of the relationship between thought and experience on the early modern English stage. Pensky shows how early modern dramatists anticipated Descartes, not as a philosopher of the modern disembodied self but as one who offered a way back to the body through skepticism.

• AcknowledgmentsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine1. Devilish Entertainment and Divine Thoughts in Doctor Faustus 2. Mind, Intension, and Wordplay in Endymion and Love’s Labour’s Lost 3. Hal as Cartesian Anti-Hero in Shakespeare’s Henriad4. The Phenomenology of Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy 5. Imagining Descartes in Hamlet and Othello Coda: Narrative at the Intersection of Being and SeemingBibliographyIndex

Nathan Pensky is an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University. He has published work in Early Theater and Early Modern Literary Studies and in non-academic outlets, including The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Boston Globe, and many others. His interests of study include early modern literature, hermeneutics, ethics and philosophy of mind.

This book promises to reshape our understanding of the relationship between thought and experience on the early modern English stage. Pensky shows how early modern dramatists anticipated Descartes, not as a philosopher of the modern disembodied self but as one who offered a way back to the body through skepticism.

• AcknowledgmentsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine1. Devilish Entertainment and Divine Thoughts in Doctor Faustus 2. Mind, Intension, and Wordplay in Endymion and Love’s Labour’s Lost 3. Hal as Cartesian Anti-Hero in Shakespeare’s Henriad4. The Phenomenology of Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy 5. Imagining Descartes in Hamlet and Othello Coda: Narrative at the Intersection of Being and SeemingBibliographyIndex

Nathan Pensky is an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University. He has published work in Early Theater and Early Modern Literary Studies and in non-academic outlets, including The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Boston Globe, and many others. His interests of study include early modern literature, hermeneutics, ethics and philosophy of mind.

This book promises to reshape our understanding of the relationship between thought and experience on the early modern English stage. Pensky shows how early modern dramatists anticipated Descartes, not as a philosopher of the modern disembodied self but as one who offered a way back to the body through skepticism.

• AcknowledgmentsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine1. Devilish Entertainment and Divine Thoughts in Doctor Faustus 2. Mind, Intension, and Wordplay in Endymion and Love’s Labour’s Lost 3. Hal as Cartesian Anti-Hero in Shakespeare’s Henriad4. The Phenomenology of Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy 5. Imagining Descartes in Hamlet and Othello Coda: Narrative at the Intersection of Being and SeemingBibliographyIndex