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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSPPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474409469
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR2983 .K44 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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
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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

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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

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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