1st Edition
Shakespeare's Ghost Writers Literature As Uncanny Causality
By Marjorie Garber
Copyright 1997
222 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and signatures - metaphors extended to include Shakespeare himself and his haunting of us, and in particular... Read more
Acknowledgements Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition: Revenant (2010) Preface to the first edition: Ghostlier Demarcations 1. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers 2. Descanting on Deformity: Richard III and the Shape of History 3. A Rome of One's Own 4. Freud's Choice 5. Macbeth: The Male Medusa 6. Hamlet: Giving Up the Ghost 7. A Tale of Three Hamlets, or, Repetition and Revenge Notes Index.
Biography
Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard
