Death of Hamlet - A Counterfactual Reading of Shakespeare

This book is an intervention in Hamlet scholarship; it dramatically puts forward the death of Hamlet.

List of contents

Preface
1. Overture, or How to Do Things with Greg
2. Invisible Speech in Hamlet
3. Ah Q and Hamlet: Materialism meets Modernity
4. Hamlet as Conspirator: A Reading of Julius Caesar
5. Timon of Athens and the Pursuit of Human Unhappiness
6. Marxian Coda

About the author

Amir Khan is Associate Professor of English in the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University in Changsha. His books include Shakespeare in Hindsight (2016) and Comedies of Nihilism (2017). He is also managing editor of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies. He lives and works in China.

Summary

This book is an intervention in Hamlet scholarship; it dramatically puts forward the death of Hamlet.

Product details

• Authors: Amir Khan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032734620
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273462-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literary theory, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean