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Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine

Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine

Critchley, Simon
Webster, Jamieson

Paperback

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 0307950484
ISBN13: 9780307950482
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 22 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
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.

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