Shakespeare Remains

by Courtney Lehmann

Book Overview

No literary figure has proved so elusive as Shakespeare. How, Courtney Lehmann asks, can the controversies surrounding the Bard's authorship be resolved when his works precede the historical birth of that modern concept? And how is it that Shakespeare remains such a powerful presence today, years after poststructuralists hailed the "death of the author"? In her cogent book, Lehmann reexamines these issues through a new lens: film theory.An alternative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801487676
• ISBN13: 9780801487675
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"