The Mind According to Shakespeare: Psychoanalysis in the Bard's Writing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275990817)

Dr. Krims, a psychoanalyst for more than three decades, takes readers into the sonnets and characters of Shakespeare and unveils the Bard's talent for illustrating psychoanalytical issues. These hidden aspects of the characters are one reason they feel real and, thus, have such a powerful effect, explains Krims. In exploring Shakespeare's characters, readers may also learn much about their own inner selves. In fact, Krims explains in one chapter how reading Shakespeare and other works helped him resolve his own inner conflicts.

Topics of focus include Prince Hal's aggression, Hotspur's fear of femininity, Hamlet's frailty, Romeo's childhood trauma and King Lear's inability to grieve. In one essay, Krims offers a mock psychoanalysis of Beatrice from Much Ado about Nothing. All of the essays look at the unconscious motivations of Shakespeare's characters, and, in doing so, both challenge and extend common understandings of his texts.

Author: Marvin Bennet Krims
ISBN-10: 0275990818
ISBN-13: 9780275990817
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.42w x 1.01d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 292