English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, Germanic Languages - English Language, Semantics, English Language Reference - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
This book explores the expressions of Shakespeare's poetic will - his sexual desire, conscious and unconscious volition, and posthumous legacy - within the linguistic matrix that enfolds his characters and readers. Using a combination of psychoanalytic approaches, Willbern rescues Shakespeare from the limitations and distortions of dramatic performance by showing that his language, scenes, and characters are propelled by the genius of this will and need to be understood primarily as written narrative.Editorials
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A psychoanalytical reading of Shakespeare's plays emphasizing word play and language at the expense of the performance. Willbern (English, U. of New York, Buffalo) offers eight essays arguing that the Bard's work needs to be understood primarily as written narrative in which Shakespeare's poetic will, sexual desire, conscious and unconscious volition, and legacy unfolds in the mouths of Macbeth, Lear, Lecrece, and Henry the Fourth. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
April 4, 1997
Publisher
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.
Pages
237
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780812233896