Stay, Illusion! - The Hamlet Doctrine (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	Simon Critchley • Jamieson Webster
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	269
ISBN-13:	978-0-307-95048-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-307-95048-4
Barcode:	9780307950482

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