{"product_id":"shakespeares-ghost-writers-9780415875561","title":"Shakespeares Ghost Writers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts â and ghost writing. \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Ghost Writers\u003c\/em\u003e is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and signatures â metaphors extended to include Shakespeare himself and his haunting of us, and in particular theorists such Derrida, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud â the figure of Shakespeare constantly made and remade by contemporary culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarjorie Garber, one of the most eminent Shakespearean theorists writing today, asks what is at stake in the imputation that Shakespeare did not write the plays, and shows that the plays themselves both thematize and theorize that controversy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cem\u003eRoutledge Classics\u003c\/em\u003e edition contains a new preface and new chapter by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Ghost Writers\u003c\/em\u003e is a brave new book, for in justifying another book on Shakespeare, it has attempted nothing less than to make literature newly consequential.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMargreta de Grazia, Shakespeare Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition: Revenant (2010) Preface to the first edition: Ghostlier Demarcations 1. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers 2. Descanting on Deformity: \u003cem\u003eRichard III\u003c\/em\u003e and the Shape of History 3. A Rome of One's Own 4. Freud's Choice 5. \u003cem\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/em\u003e: The Male Medusa 6. \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e: Giving Up the Ghost 7. A Tale of Three Hamlets, or, Repetition and Revenge Notes Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018208837975,"sku":"9780415875561","price":21.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415875561.jpg?v=1750776025","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeares-ghost-writers-9780415875561","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}