List of Figures Acknowledgements Series Editors' Preface Introduction: Experimenting with Experience: Virtual Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage Pavneet Aulakh, James Kearney and Adam Rzepka Part I. Experiential Knowledge 1. Experiencing Shakespeare's Experiences Bruce R. Smith 2. Sad Experience: Jaques, Polonius, Gloucester Adam Rzepka Part II. Experimental Forms and Frames 3. Theatre as Portal: A Shakespearean Thought Experiment Wendy Beth Hyman 4. Fictional Hypothesis, Lived Experience, and Re-worlding in The Tempest Jane Hwang Degenhardt 5.

Amazement in The Tempest Jenny C. Mann Part III. Embodied Knowledge 6. Knowing Instincts in Shakespeare's Macbeth Katherine Walker 7. Laughing Matters: Violence, Witness and Experiential Knowledge in The Massacre at Paris Katie Adkison Part IV. Experiential and Experimental Philosophy 8. Theatrical Experiments and Experiential Protestants: Shakespearean Iconoclasm in Love's Labors Lost Jennifer Waldron 9. 'Boys that play with watry Bubbles': Innocence and Experience at the Infancy of Science Elizabeth L.

Swann 10. Through 'the woods of experience': Minding the Gaps in the Time of Experiment Pavneet Aulakh Afterword Julia Reinhard Lupton Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index.