Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage

This collection of essays provides us with a series of fresh and illuminating entry points into the relationship between experience and experiment in the early modern world, and proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the theatre is one of the most illuminating entry points of all. Highly recommended. – Rhodri Lewis, Princeton University

Pavneet Aulakh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Vanderbilt University. Primarily positioned at the intersection of seventeenth-century imaginative literature and natural philosophy, he is currently working on his monograph Digesting Bacon in Seventeenth-Century England.

James Kearney is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity: Phenomenology, Theater, Experience (2025) and The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England (2010), which won CCL’s Book of the Year Award. With Julia Reinhard Lupton and Lowell Gallagher, he co-edited Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy (2020).