Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis: Better than New

by Matthew Biberman

Book Overview

Through his study of the adaptations, Biberman pinpoints aspects of behavior and psychology that no longer ring true because circumstances have changed so dramatically between　Shakespeare's　time and the time of the adaptation. He shows how the adaptive changes reveal key differences between Shakespeare's culture and the culture that then supplanted it. These changes, once grasped, reveal retroactively some of the ways in which Shakespeare's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472481534
• ISBN13: 9781472481535
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"