TY  - BOOK
AU  - Willbern,David
TI  - Poetic Will: Shakespeare and the Play of Language 
SN  - 9780812233896
AV  - PR2997.P8 
U1  - 822.3/3 21
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - English language
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Style
KW  - Plays on words
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue: Cordelia's Skirt --; Introduction: Hamlet’s Inky Cloak --; 1. Limitations of Character, Limits of Language --; 2. Paranoia, Criticism, and Malvolio --; 3. Pushing the Envelope: Supersonic Criticism --; 4. The Famous Analyses of Henry the Fourth --; 5 Hyperbolic Desire: Shakespeare's Lucrece --; 6 Phantasmagoric Macbeth --; 7 Shakespeare's Nothing --; 8 What Is Shakespeare? --; Epilogue: Yorick's Skull, Miranda's Memory --; Notes --; Index --; Permissions; restricted access
N2  - The essence of Shakespeare, observes David Willbern, is in the details. What matters most in our appreciation of Hamlet is not the staged play but the play of language we find in the words of the Bard. This book explores the expressions of Shakespeare's poetic will--his sexual desire, conscious and unconscious volition, and posthumous legacy--within the linguistic matrix that enfolds his characters and readers. Using a combination of psychoanalytic approaches, Willbern rescues Shakespeare from the limitations and distortions of dramatic performance by showing that his language, scenes, and characters are propelled by the genius of this will and need to be understood primarily as written narrative
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809374
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512809374
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