''Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality'' is a nonfiction book The book is written by Marjorie Garber and was originally published by

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in 1987.White, R. S. "Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality." (1990). In S. Wells (Ed.), ''Shakespeare Survey'' pp. 170-171 Critical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCOL0521380340.014
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Synopsis

This book decentralizes

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

from his normally central position in the literary tradition. Instead the book traces the ubiquity and influence of Shakespeare's text on our culture in post-modern England and America, as well Shakespeare's textual effect on some influential minds of the twentieth century. In this way, it says, Shakespeare or Shakespeare's ghost metaphorically haunts us.

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This book has received positive reviews.

Margreta de Grazia Margreta de Grazia (born 1946) is a scholar of Shakespeare, an Emerita Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is best known for her critical reappraisals of Shakespeare's oeuvre and her ...

writing for the ''

Shakespeare Quarterly ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1950 by the Shakespeare Association of America. It is now under the auspices of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Along with book and performance criticism, ''Shakespeare Qu ...

'' says: "Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers" is a brave new book, for in justifying another new book about Shakespeare, it has attempted nothing less than to make literature newly consequential." Jonathan Gil Harris, who wrote the book entitled ''Shakespeare and Literary Theory'' says: " arber'sbook 'Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers'...remains the most thoughtful and thought-provoking account of Shakespeare’s ‘uncanny causality’ and the ways in which theorists, even when they criticize canonical authority, repeatedly turn to Shakespeare to lend authority to their critique. ''Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers'' was the first sustained study of ‘Shakespearean theory’; it remains the best."

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