The existential dramaturgy of William Shakespeare
Subtitle: character created through crisis
By: Asloob Ahmad Ansari ; with a foreword by James Ogden
Contributors: Ogden, James
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780773436039
Subjects: Psychology; Characters; Existentialism in literature; Characters and characteristics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shakespeare's characterization: an existential view; title: Patterns of love in Twelfth night; title: The merchant of Venice: an existential comedy; title: Shakespeare's allegory of love; title: Shakespeare's existential tragedy; title: Richard III and Richard II: two forms of alienation; title: The problem of identity in Troilus and Cressida; title: Fools of time in Macbeth; title: Solitariness of the victim in Othello; title: The protagonist's dilemma in Timon of Athens; title: Marcus Brutus: the divided self; title: Coriolanus - the roots of alienation; title: The ambivalence of Caliban.