Shakespeare's Other Language - 9780367694876

Taylor & Francis

Shakespeare's Other LanguageAuthor(s): Ruth Nevo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367694876, 978-0367694876\nSynopsis\nShakespeares last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream. These features have sometimes been interpreted as the carelessness of an of an aging dramatist weary of his craft, or justified as folklore motifs, suitable to the romance tale. But neither view explains the fascination and power these plays still exert.\n\nOriginally published in 1987, Ruth Nevos book offers a reading of the plays which invokes the findings and methods of post-psychoanalytic semiotics. Drawing on a Lacanian model of the \""textual unconscious\"", she embarks on searching analyses of Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, and The Tempest, brilliantly illuminating their apparent absurdities and anomalies, their bizarre or prepost.