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); Tabula gratulatoria