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In this essay, we inspect a corpus of acting theories that reveals a strong link, which can be traced back to the eighteenth century, between the latter and contemporary cognitive concepts. A new reading of a selection of examples from the vast existing corpus of the French, British, German and Italian acting discourse points at some basic insights, which were conceptualized in social cognitive discourse 300 years later. Specifically, mental integration, mental simulation, and mental manipulation.
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This page is a summary of: Actor Mindreading: Cognitive Processes Underpinning Theories and Practices of European Stage Acting in the Eighteenth Century, Comparative Drama, January 2019, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/cdr.2019.0017.
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