Ebook: Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality

Presents an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. This title asks what is at stake in the imputation that 'Shakespeare' did not write the plays, and shows that the plays themselves both thematize and theorize that controversy.;Book cover; title; copyright; contents; acknowledgments; preface to the routledge classics edition; preface; 1 shakespeare's ghost writers; 2 descanting on deformity: richard iii and the shape of history; 3 a rome of one's own; 4 freud's choice: "the theme of the three caskets"; 5 macbeth: the male medusa; 6 hamlet: giving up the ghost; 7 a tale of three hamlets or, repetition and revenge; notes; index.