This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.

Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors examine:

• the interfaces between cognitive studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenology and communication theory
• different ideas from cognitive studies that open up the meanings of several plays
• the process of acting and the work of Antonio Damasio
• theatrical response: the dynamics of perception, and the riots that greeted the 1907 production of The Playboy of the Western World.

This original and authoritative work will be attractive to scholars and graduate students of drama, theatre, and performance.

这本文集是同类书中的第一本。除了为戏剧研究开辟新的视角--应用于戏剧批评、表演分析、表演实践、观众反应、戏剧史和其他重要领域--该书还为未来的工作制定了议程，帮助规划这种新方法的出现。

在全面的介绍之后，作者们研究了

认知研究与拉康精神分析、现象学和传播理论之间的联系

来自认知研究的不同观点，这些观点开启了一些戏剧的意义

表演的过程和安东尼奥-达马西奥的工作

戏剧反应：感知的动力，以及1907年制作《西方世界的花花公子》时发生的骚乱。

这部原创性的权威作品将对戏剧、剧院和表演的学者和研究生具有吸引力。