Shakespeare's Reparative Comedies: A Psychoanalytic View of the Middle Ages

by Joseph Westlund

Joseph Westlund brings recent developments in psychoanalytic thought to his elegant and sensitive readings of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure. Westlund departs from the usual preoccupation in psychoanalytic criticism with conflict and guilt to rely instead on Melanie Klein's theory of reparation, which emphasizes the impulse in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226894134
• ISBN13: 9780226894133
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"