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Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis - Better than New (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis - Better than New (Hardcover)
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In Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis, Matthew Biberman
analyzes early adaptations of Shakespeare's plays in order to
identify and illustrate how both social mores and basic human
psychology have changed in Anglo-American culture. Biberman
contests the received wisdom that Shakespeare's characters reflect
essentially timeless truths about human nature. To the contrary, he
points out that Shakespeare's characters sometimes act and think in
ways that have become either stigmatized or simply outmoded.
Through his study of the adaptations, Biberman pinpoints aspects of
Shakespeare's thinking about behavior and psychology that no longer
ring true because circumstances have changed so dramatically
between his time and the time of the adaptation. He shows how the
adaptors' changes reveal key differences between Shakespeare's
culture and the culture that then supplanted it. These changes,
once grasped, reveal retroactively some of the ways in which
Shakespeare's characters do not act and think as we might expect
them to act and think. Thus Biberman counters Harold Bloom's claim
that Shakespeare fundamentally invents our sense of the human;
rather, he argues, our sense of the human is equally bound up in
the many ways that modern culture has come to resist or outright
reject the behavior we see in Shakespeare's plays. Ultimately, our
current sense of 'the human' is bound up not with the adoption of
Shakespeare's psychology, perhaps, but its adaption-or, in
psychoanalytic terms, its repression and replacement.
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