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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823216203321

Autore

Khan Amir (Managing editor)

Titolo

Shakespeare in hindsight : counterfactual thinking and Shakespearean tragedy / / Amir Khan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4744-0946-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy

Classificazione

HI 3421

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

My kingdom for a ghost: counterfactual thinking and Hamlet -- Reversing good and evil: counterfactual thinking and King Lear -- Staging passivity: counterfactual thinking and Macbeth -- Reversing time: counterfactual thinking and The winter's tale -- 'Why indeed did I marry?': counterfactual thinking and Othello.

Sommario/riassunto

This bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare's tragedies.