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Informationen zum Autor PHILIP ARMSTRONG teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Canterbury, Christ Church, New Zealand. He is currently preparing a second book on Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis and researching accounts of cannibalism in Pacific colonial history. Klappentext Can postmodern accounts of the gaze - deriving from the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Riviere - tell us anything about those structures of vision prior to, and repressed by, modernity? Shakespeare's Visual Regime examines the tragedies, histories, and Roman plays for an emergent early modern spectatorial subject, thereby locating Shakespearean theatre within those discourses most crucial to the contemporary exposition and disruption of regimes of vision: perspective painting, cartography, optics, geometry, Puritan anti-theatrical polemic, and the occult. Zusammenfassung Can postmodern accounts of the gaze - deriving from the psychoanalytic theories of Freud! Lacan! Fanon! and Riviere - tell us anything about those structures of vision prior to! and repressed by! modernity? Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Hamlet : The Stage Mirror King Lear : Uncanny Spectacles Othello : Black and White Writing Troilus and Cressida : Space War Mapping Histories Macbeth : Mimicry and Masquerade Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
