Contents

Acknowledgments

Glossary of terms and concepts

Foreword: What does the play “mean”?

Introduction: Viewing and understanding performance: in light of other minds

PART I

1    A public experience: But is it shared?

2    Knowledge, (dis)agreement, and other minds

3    A public reality of one’s own

PART II

4    Epistemic problems: Hamlet and Horatio’s “Hamlet” … in light of other minds

5    Temporal-spatial problems: Border progressions and locating the self: mobility and immobility in Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas and The Castle of Perseverance

6    Contextual problems: Witting and unwitting contexts: translating public and private experience in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul

7    Lingual problems: (Private and public) performances of the self: ...

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