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The essays in
New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains engage a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic theory and criticism, from Freud to the present, to read individual plays closely.
Sommario
James Newlin and James W. Stone: Introduction
Cryptonomy, Necrology, Ghosts
- Adam Rzepka – "That dim monument": The fantasy of the crypt in Romeo and Juliet and Antigone
- Kasey Evans – The Time Is Out of Joint: Hamlet Speaks to the Dead
- Andrew Barnaby – "Mine Own, and Not Mine Own": Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Early-Modern Psychotheology
Festivity and Sacrifice
- Russell J. Bodi – Hamlet’s Nobler Choice: The Interior Game
- James W. Stone – "Is this a holiday?": Festivity and Sacrifice in Julius Caesar
History and Trauma
- Devori Kimbro – "All Badged with Blood": Equivocation as Trauma in Macbeth
- Gabriel Rieger – "Crawling between earth and heaven": Sadomasochism and Subjectivity in Hamlet
- Zackariah Long – The Primal Scene in Pericles: Trauma, Typology, and Mythology
Gender Trouble
- W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. – Phallic Fantasies in The Taming of the Shrew
- Drew Daniel – The Gilded Puddle: Scatology, Race and Masochism in Antony and Cleopatra
- James Newlin – Staging the Woman in The Tempest and Ex Machina
Shakespeare and the Matter of Clinical Practice
- Nicholas Bellinson – ‘method in’t’: Hamlet as analysand
- Richard M. Waugaman, M.D.: What Shakespeare Teaches Us about Psychological Complexity
- Vera J. Camden – An Afterword on Apocalypse and Afterwardness
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James Newlin is a lecturer at Case Western Reserve University in the Department of English. He is the author of Uncanny Fidelity: Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television (University of Alabama Press, 2024). He has also published in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Shakespeare Bulletin, SubStance, and elsewhere.
James W. Stone is a lecturer on Shakespeare at American University, at the Osher Institute at Johns Hopkins, and at OLLI at American University. He taught at the American University in Cairo and at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Crossing Gender in Shakespeare: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within (Routledge, 2010) and articles on Shakespeare, Milton, the Renaissance Ovid, film theory, and contemporary Egyptian art. His current project is co-editing a collection of essays by British scholars on Shakespeare and psychoanalysis.
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The essays in New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains engage a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic theory and criticism, from Freud to the present, to read individual plays closely.
