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The patriarch of the family is dying and James, his estranged son, appears unexpectedly. He can remember nothing about a mysterious moment that occurred in the family's potting shed when he was 14-years-old. Family members who recall the event are unwilling to describe it to him. With the help of a psychoanalyst, James tries to recall just what happened that day that left him rejected by his father, alienated from his family, and alone in the world....

In this, the third volume of a trilogy devoted to the foremost among the older English poets (the others being Chaucer and Milton) the distinguished scholar and critic Edward Wagenknecht has produced a tour de force of Shakespearean scholarship. Many, if not most, Shakespeare scholars have despaired of moving beyond the poet's so-called objectivity to get at the man himself. Shakespeare has also been called "characterless" by those who cannot detect...

"Now available for the first time in paperback, Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays exemplifies the most recent contributions of psychoanalytic literary criticism to our understanding of Shakespeare's mind and art. These thirteen essays reflect a careful, sophisticated interaction of post-Freudian psychoanalysis with critical readings of Shakespeare's central preoccupations-- family relations, sexuality, authority-- and their relation...

Discusses the plays of Arthur Miller, including "Incident at Vichy" (pp. 134-145) and "Broken Glass" (pp. 228-239). Both these plays deal with guilt and responsibility vis-a-vis the Holocaust, especially with the refusal to recognize the terrible reality. "Broken Glass, " the title of which refers to the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, includes self-hating Jews and uses the symbolism of impotence and paralysis to portray the failure to act responsibly or...

Oriental barbarians, black magicians, homosexuals, African queens and kings, Machiavellian Christians, Turks, and Jews - for an English audience of the sixteenth century, these are marginal, unorthodox, and strange figures. They are also the central figures in the plays of Christopher Marlowe. In Spectacles of Strangeness, Emily C. Bartels focuses on Marlowe's preoccupation with "strangers" and "strange" lands, and his use - and subversion - of Elizabethan...

Critical study of Bernard Shaw.