Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality is a nonfiction book written by Marjorie Garber and was originally published by Methuen Publishing in 1987.
[1][2][3][4][5] This book decentralizes Shakespeare 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 as Shakespeare's textual effect on some influential minds of the twentieth century.
"[1] Jonathan Gil Harris, who wrote the book entitled Shakespeare and Literary Theory says: "[Garber's] book '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.