Title Shakespeare's ghost writers : literature as uncanny causality / Marjorie Garber ; with a new preface by the author

Published New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 318 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge classics Routledge classics. Contents 1. Shakespeare's ghost writers -- 2. Descanting on deformity : Richard III and the shape of history -- 3. A Rome of one's own -- 4. Freud's choice : "The theme of the three caskets" -- 5. Macbeth : the male medusa -- 6. Hamlet : giving up the ghost -- 7. A tale of three Hamlets or, repetition and revenge Summary The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and signatures - metaphors extended to include Shakespeare himself and his haunting of us, and in particular theorists such Derrida, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud - the figure of Shakespeare constantly made and remade by contemporary culture. Marjorie Garber, one of the most eminent Shakespearean theorists writing today, asks what is at stake in the imputation that "Shakespeare" did not write the plays, and shows that the plays themselves both thematize and theorize that controversy. This Routledge Classics edition contains a new preface and new chapter by the author Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Ghosts SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject Psychoanalysis and literature. Drama -- Psychological aspects Ghosts in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. DRAMA -- Shakespeare. Authorship Drama -- Psychological aspects Ghosts in literature Psychoanalysis and literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203857113 0203857119

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