“To sleep, maybe to dream” and Other Encounters with a Trained Machine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World 1
5. Essays and Responses
6. 1. Baffling Terms 31
7. Baffling Comedy, Baffling Ourselves: A Response to Adam Zucker 39
8. Knowing Games: A Response to Adam Zucker 42
9. 2. Shakespeare’s Nuts: The Blind Spots of the Edible Contact Zone 49
10. Flying Blind, Going Nuts: A Response to Jonathan Gil Harris 65
11. 3. Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing and Knowing in Othello 75
12. Seeing Blindness: A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri 89
13. Towards an Epistemology of the Stage? A Response to Supriya Chaudhuri 92
14. 4. What Emilia Knew: Shakespeare Reads James 101
15. Minding Shakespeare’s Gaps: A Response to Aveek Sen 113
16. Darkness Visible: A Response to Aveek Sen 116
17. 5. Knowing Kin and Kind in The Winter’s Tale 123
18. Unknowing Kind: A Response to Tanya Pollard 133
19. Difficult Loves: A Response to Tanya Pollard 136
20. 6. The Epistemology of Violence in The Comedie of Errors 143
21. What Does the Slave Know? A Response to Stephen Spiess 153
22. Narrating Violence: A Response to Stephen Spiess 156
23. 7. Broken English: A Dialogue 169
24. “To sleep, maybe to dream” and Other Encounters with a Trained Machine 170
25. The Inheritance of Meat 179
26. 8. Conscience Doth Make Errors: The Blind Spot of Shakespearean Quotation 185
27. On Not Knowing Shakespeare: A Response to Zachary Lesser 197
28. The Food of Points: A Response to Zachary Lesser 199
29. Notes on Contributors 207
30. Index 211