Shakespeare on the Couch

ISBN-13: 9780367324827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str.

Michael Jacobs

Opis

Drawing upon a vast literature in psychoanalytic journals and either upon Shakespeare's characters themselves or alluding to those characters in the course of other topics, this book discusses eight of Shakespeare's plays and the relationships between the main characters in them. Psychoanalytic and literary approaches sometimes diverge, but they ca

Spis treści

Prologue -- The qualities of people -- Much deceived: Leontes and Othello -- Death and the maiden -- The rei(g)ns of power -- Part-objects: Prospero and Caliban -- “Father” and son: Prince Hal and Falstaff -- The Macbeths: a childless couple? -- Antony and Cleopatra—“star-cross’d” lovers? -- Epilogue

O autorze

Jacobs, Michael