| Description |
ix, 366 pages ; 25 cm |
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Odéon |
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Odéon.
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| Contents |
Lechery and war : the subversion of the medieval Troilus and Cressida -- These men's looks : power games in Troilus and Cressida -- O Pandarus! : Troilus and Cressida and the universal go-between -- Pale and bloodless emulation : the crisis of degree in Troilus and Cressida -- To you your father should be as a god : the crisis of degree in A midsummer night's dream -- Confounding contraries : the crisis of degree in Timon of Athens and other plays -- O conspiracy! : mimetic seduction in Julius Caesar -- Domestic fury and fierce civil strife : violent polarization in Julius Caesar -- Great Rome shall suck reviving blood : the founding murder in Julius Caesar -- Let's be sacrificers but not butchers, Caius : sacrifice in Julius Caesar -- Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods : sacrificial cycles in Julius Caesar -- A universal wolf and a universal prey : the founding murder in Troilus and Cressida |
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Love delights in praises : Valentine and Proteus in The two gentlemen of Verona -- Envy of so rich a thing : Collatine and Tarquin in The rape of Lucrece -- The course of true love : the four lovers in A midsummer night's dream -- O teach me how you look : Helena and Hermia in A midsummer night's dream -- All their minds transfigured : genesis of myth in A midsummer night's dream -- More than fancy's images : the craftsmen in A midsummer night's dream -- Something of great constancy : Theseus and Hippolyta in A midsummer night's dream -- Love by another's eye : mimetic punning in A midsummer night's dream -- Love by hearsay : mimetic strategies in Much ado about nothing -- Do you love him because I do! : the pastoral genre in As you like it -- 'Tis not her glass, but you that flatter her : self-love in As you like it -- O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful : self-love in Twelfth night -- 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before : Orsino and Olivia in Twelfth night -- A woeful Cressid' 'mongst the merry Greeks : the love affair in Troilus and Cressida |
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Sweet Puck! : sacrificial resolution in A midsummer night's dream -- To entrap the wisest : sacrificial ambivalence in The merchant of Venice and Richard III -- Do you believe your own theory? : "French triangles" in the Shakespeare of James Joyce -- Hamlet's dull revenge : vengeance in Hamlet -- Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary? : desire and death in Othello and other plays -- Thou dost love her because thou know'st I love her : rhetorical figures in the Sonnets -- An instrument to vice you to 't : The winter's tale (act 1, scene 2) -- Thou co-active art! : jealousy in The winter's tale -- Neither malice nor matter : original sin in The winter's tale -- To your shadow will I make true love : The winter's tale (act 5, scenes 1 and 2) -- Does not the stone rebuke me for being more stone than it? : The winter's tale (act 5, scene 3) -- They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk : self-satire in The tempest |
| Summary |
The author proposes dramatic new interpretations of nearly all of Shakespeare's plays and poems |
| Analysis |
English drama |
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English drama |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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| SUBJECT |
Mimesis http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86742975 -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
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Desire in literature.
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Drama -- Psychological aspects.
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Envy in literature.
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Mimesis in literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- England.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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| LC no. |
90007477 |
| ISBN |
0195053397 cloth |
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9780195053395 cloth |
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