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Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage

Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage

Hillman, R.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0333628993
ISBN13: 9780333628997
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 30 1997
Pages: 309
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with recent models of subject formation, especially Lacan's, to theorize and analyze the stage 'self' as a variable linguistic construct. Both the approach itself and the conclusions it generates significantly diverge from the standard New Historicist/Cultural Materialist narrative of subjectivity. Plays range from the Corpus Christi pageants to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, with Shakespeare a recurrent focus and Hamlet, inevitably, the pivotal text.

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