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.
About the AuthorPHILIP ARMSTRONG teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Canterbury, Christ Church, New Zealand. He is currently preparing a second book on Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis and researching accounts of cannibalism in Pacific colonial history.
Book InformationISBN 9780333779354
Author P. ArmstrongFormat Hardback
Page Count 247
Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan