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Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Text in English. 289 pp. Minor wear to covers. Glue residue on the back cover. This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, lbsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and Beckett among others. The authors seek to show that the subtle understanding of conscious and unconscious emotions achieved by psychoanalytic practice can bring new ways of understanding classic works of drama. The argument of the book, set out in its introduction and exemplified in its discussion of individual dramatists and plays, is thaf western drama has represented the central tensions of societies as crises in the relationships of gender and generation, through dramafic explorations of the inner life of families. This is the common theme which links the book's analysis of Medea, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Chery Orchard, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Homecoming, and many other plays. The value of this book lies in the originality of its analysis of individual plays, and the subtlety with which it brings psychoanalytic and sociological insights together. Mirror to Nature should be of particular relevance to those interested in the theatre, whether as theatregoers, performers or students, in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and in literature. Like the Rustins earlier work on children's fiction, (Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children's Fiction ) this volume on theatre shows in a lucid and accessible way how psychoanalytic thinking can illuminate emotional experience in everyday life. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4 full-page and 15 smaller illustrations, some in colour. Maroon cloth gilt on spine and upper board (inset with a man upon a lotus). Spine slightly faded, slightly cocked. A very good copy.