Shakespeare's Ghost Writers Literature as Uncanny Causality [Paperback]

The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts  and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writersis an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written.

Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and signatures  metaphors extended to include Shakespeare himself and his haunting of us, and in particular theorists such Derrida, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud  the figure of Shakespeare constantly made and remade by contemporary culture.

Marjorie Garber, one of the most eminent Shakespearean theorists writing today, asks what is at stake in the imputation that Shakespeare did not write the plays, and shows that the plays themselves both thematize and theorize that controversy.

This Routledge Classicsedition contains a new preface and new chapter by the author.

Acknowledgements  Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition: Revenant (2010)  Preface to the first edition: Ghostlier Demarcations  1. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers  2. Descanting on Deformity: Richard IIIand the Shape of History  3. A Rome of One's Own  4. Freud's Choice  5. Macbeth: The Male Medusa  6. Hamlet: Giving Up the Ghost  7. A Tale of Three Hamlets, or, Repetition and Revenge  Notes  Index