Shakespeare in Hindsight : : Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy / / Amir Khan.

A novel methodology designed to make Shakespeare, and his tragedies in particular, more accessible to students and scholars alikeWhy one more ‘approach’ to reading Shakespeare? One reason is because whatever previous approaches say about tragedy in particular, none of them help us to feel tragedy. O...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Anno di pubblicazione:2022
Lingua:English
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSP
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
A Note on Texts --
Series Editor’s Preface --
1. Introduction --
2. My Kingdom for a Ghost: Counterfactual Thinking and Hamlet --
3. Reversing Good and Evil: Counterfactual Thinking and King Lear --
4. Staging Passivity: Counterfactual Thinking and Macbeth --
5. Reversing Time: Counterfactual Thinking and The Winter’s Tale --
6. ‘Why Indeed Did I Marry?’: Counterfactual Thinking and Othello --
7. Conclusion --
Notes --
Further Reading --
Index
Riassunto:A novel methodology designed to make Shakespeare, and his tragedies in particular, more accessible to students and scholars alikeWhy one more ‘approach’ to reading Shakespeare? One reason is because whatever previous approaches say about tragedy in particular, none of them help us to feel tragedy. Or, rather, they subordinate tragedy to something else — to considerations of class, race, or gender. Thus, where these other approaches attempt to explain tragedy away, the aim of Amir Khan’s counterfactual criticism of Shakespeare’s tragedies, including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello is to help us to feel tragedy first and foremost — and hence, to perceive it better.Key Features:Provides a way past historicist methods in Shakespearean scholarshipTransform less the way Shakespeare’s tragedies are read and more the way they are perceivedIntroduces the promise of, while modeling ways to exercise, counterfactual scholarship in literary studies
Natura:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781474409469
9783110780451
DOI:10.1515/9781474409469
Accesso:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Amir Khan.