Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 47 IS - 1 T2 - Philosophy and Literature SP - 46-55 ID - bbbo24 T1 - "Can I Talk about Shakespeare?" AU - Pierce, Robert B PY - 2023 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Asks whether it is possible to talk sensibly about Shakespeare’s works, identifying two barriers to this action: problems of understanding utterances from different times and cultures and difficulty of reading others’ minds. Concludes that it is not impossible to understand early modern Englishman's utterances but cognitive science does not provide magic key to provide complete grasp of how mental decisions of characters may occur. ER -