Shakespeare's Visual Regime: Tragedy, Psychoanalysis and the Gaze

by Philip Armstrong

Book Overview

Can postmodern accounts of the gaze - deriving from the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Riviere - tell us anything about those structures of vision prior to, and repressed by, modernity? Shakespeare's Visual Regime examines the tragedies, histories, and Roman plays for an emergent early modern spectatorial subject, thereby locating Shakespearean theatre within those discourses most crucial to the contemporary exposition and disruption...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349418358
• ISBN13: 9781349418350
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"