Shakespeare in Hindsight: Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy

ISBN-13: 9781474426046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str.

Amir Khan

Opis

This bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare s tragedies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; A Note on Texts; 1. Introduction; 2. My Kingdom for a Ghost: Counterfactual Thinking and Hamlet; 3. Reversing Good and Evil: Counterfactual Thinking and King Lear; 4. Staging Passivity: Counterfactual Thinking and Macbeth; 5. Reversing Time: Counterfactual Thinking and The Winter’s Tale ; 6. ‘Why Indeed Did I Marry?’ Counterfactual Thinking and Othello ; 7. Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography.