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Canonical States, Canonical Stages: Oedipus, Othering, and Seventeenth-Century Drama
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"Greenberg offers a powerful interpretation of the classical stage in its relationship to the emergence of absolutism in Europe....The originality and strength of the book reside in its fascinating integration of texts dealing with political theory, psychoanalysis, history, and literature....This book is one of the most important contributions to date on the study of the European classical stage." --Marie-Hélène Huet, University of Virginia
"Greenberg offers a powerful interpretation of the classical stage in its relationship to the emergence of absolutism in Europe....The originality and strength of the book reside in its fascinating integration of texts dealing with political theory, psychoanalysis, history, and literature....This book is one of the most important contributions to date on the study of the European classical stage." --Marie-Hélène Huet, University of Virginia
"Greenberg’s erudition, conceptualization, and rigorous argumentation establish Canonical States, Canonical Stages as a model for the psychoanalytic study of comparative drama. . . . No other work has demonstrated so well the complex interdependence of the sexual and the political in this masculine drama. . . . Readers will leave this book with a solid appreciation of the role of psychoanalytic relations in the production of the absolutist ideology." — Timothy Murray, Cornell University