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<p> . . . a powerful new study of Shakespeare's four great tragedies and of the man himself. These are original and strong readings in which a picture of Shakespeare's personality emerges that is clear and convincing. <p> --Norman Holland, University of Florida <p> Paris unashamedly and insightfully celebrates Shakespeare's capacity for a mimetic, psychologically rich and complex representation of character . . . . Furthermore, he uses his investigations of the plays to speculate about Shakespeare the author and his psychological development . . . . he addresses his book primarily to 'students and lovers of Shakespeare, ' to . . . those 'who are interested in literature as a source of psychological insight, ' even 'self-understanding and growth.' Indeed, anyone who counts himself or herself in one of these categories will be enlightened--and delighted--by this book. <p> --Margret Schaefer, Psychoanalytic Books, Vol. 5 <p> . . . a delight to read, both for concentrating on the psychology of the major characters--an astonishingly underrepresented aspect of modern Shakespeare studies--and for the many brilliant and altogether convincing points Paris has to make. <p> --Paul Bertram, Rutgers University

-. . . a powerful new study of Shakespeare's four great tragedies and of the man himself. These are original and strong readings in which a picture of Shakespeare's personality emerges that is clear and convincing.- --Norman Holland, University of Florida -Paris unashamedly and insightfully celebrates Shakespeare's capacity for a mimetic, psychologically rich and complex representation of character . . . . Furthermore, he uses his investigations of the plays to speculate about Shakespeare the author and his psychological development . . . . he addresses his book primarily to 'students and lovers of Shakespeare, ' to . . . those 'who are interested in literature as a source of psychological insight, ' even 'self-understanding and growth.' Indeed, anyone who counts himself or herself in one of these categories will be enlightened--and delighted--by this book.- --Margret Schaefer, Psychoanalytic Books, Vol. 5 - . . . a delight to read, both for concentrating on the psychology of the major characters--an astonishingly underrepresented aspect of modern Shakespeare studies--and for the many brilliant and altogether convincing points Paris has to make.- --Paul Bertram, Rutgers University

. . . a powerful new study of Shakespeare's four great tragedies and of the man himself. These are original and strong readings in which a picture of Shakespeare's personality emerges that is clear and convincing. --Norman Holland, University of Florida Paris unashamedly and insightfully celebrates Shakespeare's capacity for a mimetic, psychologically rich and complex representation of character . . . . Furthermore, he uses his investigations of the plays to speculate about Shakespeare the author and his psychological development . . . . he addresses his book primarily to 'students and lovers of Shakespeare, ' to . . . those 'who are interested in literature as a source of psychological insight, ' even 'self-understanding and growth.' Indeed, anyone who counts himself or herself in one of these categories will be enlightened--and delighted--by this book. --Margret Schaefer, Psychoanalytic Books, Vol. 5 . . . a delight to read, both for concentrating on the psychology of the major characters--an astonishingly underrepresented aspect of modern Shakespeare studies--and for the many brilliant and altogether convincing points Paris has to make. --Paul Bertram, Rutgers University

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Bernard J. Paris is professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Florida. His fields of interest include Victorian and comparative fiction and the psychological study of literature. He is author of numerous books including Rereading George Eliot; Imagined Human Beings; Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels, and Karen Horney: A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-Understanding. Theodore I. Rubin is a past president of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and Karen Horney Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of more than twenty-five books including Shrink, The Diary of a Psychiatrist and Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair.

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