A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare, Paperback/Rene Girard

Descriere

One of the foremost literary critics turns to the major figure in English literature and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems, involving a novel interpretation 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. Thus envy, or "mimetic desire," drives the human condition.