Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud

by Adam Phillips and Stephen Greenblatt

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud

In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again. Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament, and from Oedipus Rex to Hamlet,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300276362
• ISBN13: 9780300276367
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 232 Pages