| Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine Contributor(s): Critchley, Simon (Author), Webster, Jamieson (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307950484 ISBN-13: 9780307950482 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.44 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the Ghost haunts him. Arguably, no literary work, not even the Bible, is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's Hamlet. Everyone knows at least six words from the play; often people know many more. Yet the play--Shakespeare's longest--is more than "passing strange" and becomes deeply unfamiliar when considered closely. Reading Hamlet alongside other writers, philosophers, and psychoanalysts--Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and Joyce--Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster consider the political context and stakes of Shakespeare's play, its relation to religion, the movement of desire, and the incapacity to love. |