Concluding Note

Abstract

In this book, I hope to have shown some of the ways in which insights from modern experimental psychology can shed light on some of the fundamental critical questions at stake in Shakespeare’s plays. I also hope to have made evident how Shakespeare himself demonstrates an implicit understanding of human thinking that anticipates the findings of recent psychological studies. In addition, as a writer of extraordinary insight into the workings of the human mind, Shakespeare presents interesting and sometimes awkward challenges to the conclusions drawn by some of those studies.