Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare (Girard)

Author: Rene Girard

ISBN: 9781587318603

Binding: paperback

Section: Drama-Plays

In this ground-breaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is Girard's novel reinterpretation of "mimesis." For Girard, people desire objects not for their intrinsic value, but because they are desired by someone else—we mime or imitate their desires.