Shakespeare's Ghost Writers - Literature as Uncanny Causality (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts – and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written.

Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and signatures – metaphors extended to include Shakespeare himself and his haunting of us, and in particular theorists such Derrida, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud – the figure of Shakespeare constantly made and remade by contemporary culture.

Marjorie Garber, one of the most eminent Shakespearean theorists writing today, asks what is at stake in the imputation that "Shakespeare" did not write the plays, and shows that the plays themselves both thematize and theorize that controversy.

This Routledge Classics edition contains a new preface and new chapter by the author.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition: Revenant (2010) Preface to the first edition: Ghostlier Demarcations 1. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers 2. Descanting on Deformity: Richard III and the Shape of History 3. A Rome of One's Own 4. Freud's Choice 5. Macbeth: The Male Medusa 6. Hamlet: Giving Up the Ghost 7. A Tale of Three Hamlets, or, Repetition and Revenge Notes Index

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Classics
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	Marjorie Garber
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-87556-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts Promotions
LSN:	0-415-87556-0
Barcode:	9780415875561

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