Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self
Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self

Author: John Lee

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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This text offers a new approach to the discussion of English Renaissance literary subjectivity. Unhappy with new historicist and cultural materialistic criticism, it traces the history of the controversies of self.

Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons
Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons

Author: P. Murray

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-05-10

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0230376754

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Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes we should view his characters as imagined persons. A new reading of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviourism brings out how - contrary to the impression he created - Skinner ascribes an important role in human behaviour to cognitive activity. Using this analysis, Peter Murray demonstrates the consistency of radical behaviourism with the psychology of character formation and acting in writers from Plato to Shakespeare - an approach little explored in the current debates about subjectivity in Elizabethan culture. Murray also shows that radical behaviourism can explain the phenomena observed in modern studies of acting and social role-playing. Drawing on these analyses of earlier and modern psychology, Murray goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal, Rosalind, and Perdita in a fascinating new light.

Shakespeare's God
Shakespeare's God

Author: Ivor Morris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-12-23

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1135032572

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First published in 1972. Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study places Christianity's commentary on the human condition side by side with what tragedy reveals about it. This pattern is identified using the writings of Christian thinkers from Augustine to the present day. The pattern in the chief phenomena of literary tragedy is also traced

Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: Philip Martin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-24

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780521144636

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This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love, the relation of these to the world of natural growth and temporal succession, and finally the ways in which art can properly be defined as a form of love.