Theatre of Envy William Shakespeare

Name: Theatre of Envy William Shakespeare
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ISBN: 9780195053395

ISBN-10: 0195053397

ISBN-13: 9780195053395

Edition: 1991

Authors: Renï¿½ Girard

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In this groundbreaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is Rene Girard's novel reinterpretation of "mimesis." For Girard, people desire objects not for their intrinsic value, but because they are desired by someone else--we mime or imitate their desires. This envy--or "mimetic desire"--he sees as one of the foundations of the human condition. Bringing such provocative and iconoclastic insights to bear on Shakespeare, Girard reveals the previously overlooked coherence of problem plays like Troilus and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/9/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.56" long x 1.41" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English