Shakespeare and Jungian typology : a reading of the plays / Kenneth Tucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, Kenneth, 1940-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Psychology.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Psychology.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters.

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

Jung, C. G.

Typology (Psychology) in literature.

Drama--Psychological aspects.

Drama.

Psychology in literature.

Typology (Psychology).

Physical Description:

v, 169 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2003]

Summary:

The psychological type of a writer's character can be understood as a projection of the author's own personality: Iago can show Shakespeare's rational function whereas Othello expresses the dramatist's capacity to experience emotion. Thus Jungian typology initiates a quasi-biographical approach to writers and their works. Instead of directing attention toward an author's education, class prejudices, and so on, it reveals emotional undercurrents within the writings, which in turn express similar currents within the author's psyche. Jungian psychetypology is overdue in gaining recognition as a tool for literary analysis, and this work applies these theories to the spectrum of Shakespeare's plays.

Contents:

"Cry havoc!" : King John and the darkling plain

One man's meat is another man's poison

Thought and feeling in the comedies

Antony and Cleopatra and Troilus and Cressida : lovers and other strangers

"Stay, we must not lose our senses" : the emergence of the inferior function

Hamlet in Hell

Shakespeare's romances : the return to Eden and the return of the goblins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-166) and index.

ISBN:

0786416475

OCLC:

52471466