Dianne Hunter ’66 has written a book titled “Shakespeare’s Continuity,” described as a deeply analytical, richly referenced examination” of the work by playwright William Shakespeare “through a psychoanalytic lens. The book, from Edwin Mellen Press, was published earlier this year.
“This book indicates to readers of literature and psychology how formalism as a method of interpretation can integrate the sequence of Shakespeare’s development and articulate his daemon,” Edwin Mellen Press states on its website.
“Looking at Shakespeare’s progress through dramatic forms from A Midsummer Night's Dream through The Tempest allows us to see upheavals in political and familial inheritance. His successive character configurations de-center from son figures who struggle for paternal authority to daughters who are creative mysteries.”
Hunter’s book is available to read online.
Hunter graduated from Alfred University in 1966 with a bachelor’s degree in English. She is emerita professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. After graduating from Alfred, she received a master’s degree in English from Purdue University and a PhD in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She was a member of the English faculty at Trinity from 1972 until her retirement in 2008.
In addition to “Shakespeare’s Continuity,” Hunter also edited “Seduction and Theory: Readings of Gender, Representation, and Rhetoric” (University of Illinois Press, 1989), and “The Makings of Dr. Charcot’s Hysteria Shows: Research Through Performance” (Edwin Mellen Press, 1998).