Alan Warren Friedman

Shakespeare's Returning Warriors - and Ours (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare's Returning Warriors - and Ours highlights a central and understudied feature of Shakespeare's plays and what they can teach us about PTSD today when it is a wide-spread phenomenon in American society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000469769
• Artikelnr.: 62827455

Autorenporträt

Alan Warren Friedman, Thaman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, specializes in modern British, Irish, and American literature, the novel, and Shakespearean drama. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1966, writing a dissertation on Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, the subject of his first book. Subsequent authored books include Multivalence: The Moral Quality of Form in the Modern Novel; William Faulkner; Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise; Party Pieces: Oral Narrative and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett; and Surreal Beckett: Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Surrealism. He has edited or co-edited six books and a dozen special journal issues, and published on Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and Marlowe's Jew of Malta. He has won both the President's Associates and Plan II's Chad Oliver Teaching Awards, and both the English Department's Faculty Service Award and UT's Civitatis Award conferred annually "upon a member of the faculty in recognition of dedicated and meritorious service to the University above and beyond the regular expectations of teaching, research, and writing." He has served as Chair of the University's Faculty Council and as Secretary of the General Faculty.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1. PTSD and the Failure of Reintegration Chapter 2. Homer
Aeschylus
Shakespeare
and PTSD Chapter 3. Militarism in Shakespeare's History Plays Chapter 4. Paradigmatic Returning Warrior Plays: Titus Andronicus
Julius Caesar
Othello
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus Chapter 5. Dramatic Variants: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Troilus and Cressida Chapter 6. Hamlet's Warrior Problems Chapter 7. Returning Warriors
Drones
and PTSD

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Preface

Chapter 1. PTSD and the Failure of Reintegration

Chapter 2. Homer, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and PTSD

Chapter 3. Militarism in Shakespeare's History Plays

Chapter 4. Paradigmatic Returning Warrior Plays: Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus

Chapter 5. Dramatic Variants: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus and Cressida

Chapter 6. Hamlet's Warrior Problems

Chapter 7. Returning Warriors, Drones, and PTSD