Shakespeare’s Visual Regime: Tragedy, Psychoanalysis and the Gaze

Armstrong, P.

Can postmodern accounts of the gaze - deriving from the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Riviere - tell us anything about those structures of vision prior to, and repressed by, modernity? Shakespeare's Visual Regime examines the tragedies, histories, and Roman plays for an emergent early modern spectatorial subject, thereby locating Shakespearean theatre within those discourses most crucial to the contemporary exposition and disruption of regimes of vision: perspective painting, cartography, optics, geometry, Puritan anti-theatrical polemic, and the occult.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-11-08

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349418350

DOI: 10.1057/9780230288874

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 247