Psychoanalytic Criticism and Teaching Shakespeare.

Wheeler, Richard P.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Psychoanalytic Criticism and Teaching Shakespeare.

Wheeler, Richard P.

ADE Bulletin, n87 p19-23 Fall 1987

Presents a brief overview of previous psychoanalytically based theories of Shakespeare's plays, particularly "Hamlet," and defends the notion of introducing undergraduates to psychoanalytically based criticism because of the insights it may give students into their own lives. (JC)

Descriptors: Drama, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Psychiatry, Seventeenth Century Literature, Sixteenth Century Literature, Teaching Methods

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