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Poetic Will : Shakespeare and the Play of Language / David Willbern.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willbern, David, Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Literary style.
- Shakespeare, William.
- English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Semantics.
- English language.
- English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Style.
- Plays on words.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The essence of Shakespeare, observes David Willbern, is in the details. What matters most in our appreciation of Hamlet is not the staged play but the play of language we find in the words of the Bard. This book explores the expressions of Shakespeare's poetic will--his sexual desire, conscious and unconscious volition, and posthumous legacy--within the linguistic matrix that enfolds his characters and readers. Using a combination of psychoanalytic approaches, Willbern rescues Shakespeare from the limitations and distortions of dramatic performance by showing that his language, scenes, and characters are propelled by the genius of this will and need to be understood primarily as written narrative.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Cordelia's Skirt
- Introduction: Hamlet's Inky Cloak
- 1. Limitations of Character, Limits of Language
- 2. Paranoia, Criticism, and Malvolio
- 3. Pushing the Envelope: Supersonic Criticism
- 4. The Famous Analyses of Henry the Fourth
- 5 Hyperbolic Desire: Shakespeare's Lucrece
- 6 Phantasmagoric Macbeth
- 7 Shakespeare's Nothing
- 8 What Is Shakespeare?
- Epilogue: Yorick's Skull, Miranda's Memory
- Notes
- Index
- Permissions
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512809374
- 1512809373
- OCLC:
- 979837096
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