Shakespeare's individualism
By: Peter Holbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521760676
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Individualism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Part I: Shakespeare, Hamlet, Selfhood. 1. Hamlet and failure; title: 2. 'A room...at the back of the shop'; title: 3. Egyptianism (our fascist future); title: 4. 'Become who you are!'; title: 5. Hamlet and self-love; title: 6. 'To thine own self be true'; title: 7. Listening to ghosts; title: 8. Shakespeare's self; title: Part II. Shakespeare and Evil. 9. 'Old lad, I am thine own: authenticity and Titus Andronicus; title: 10. Evil and self-creation; title: 11. Libertarian Shakespeare: Mill, Bradley; title: 12. Shakespearean immoral individualism: Gide; title: 13. Strange Shakespeare: Symons and others; title: 14. Eliot's rejection of Shakespeare; title: 15. Shakespearean immoralism: Antony and Cleopatra; title: 16. Making oneself known: Montaigne and the Sonnets; title: Part III. Shakespeare and Self-Government. 17. Freedom and self-government: The Tempest; title: 18. Calibanism; title: Conclusion: Shakespeare's 'beauteous freedom'.