Rustin, Margaret,

Mirror to nature : drama, psychoanalysis, and society / Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin. - x, 289 pages ; 24 cm. - Tavistock Clinic series . - Tavistock Clinic series .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-280) and index.

Introduction: theatre, mind and society -- Medea: love and violence split asunder -- Ion: an Athenian "family romance" -- Shakespeare's Macbeth: a marital tragedy -- Shakespeare's A Midsummer night's dream: further meditations on marriage -- What Ibsen knew -- Chekhov: the pain of intimate relationships -- Oscar Wilde's glittering surface -- Arthur Miller: fragile masculinity in American society -- Beckett: dramas of psychic catastrophe -- Psychic spaces in Harold Pinter's work -- -- Introduction: theatre, mind, and society -- Medea: love and violence split asunder -- Ion: an Athenian "family romance" -- Shakespeare's Macbeth: a marital tragedy -- Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: further meditations on marriage -- What Ibsen knew -- Chekhov: the pain of intimate relationships -- Oscar Wilde's glittering surface -- Arthur Miller: fragile masculinity in American society -- Beckett: dramas of psychic catastrophe -- Psychic spaces in Harold Pinter's work. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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Psychoanalysis and literature
Psychoanalysis in literature
Drama--History and criticism

PN56.P92 / R85 2002

801.92