Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage
Seiten
1997
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-62899-7 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-62899-7 (ISBN)
This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Plays range from the Corpus Christi pageants to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, with Shakespeare a recurrent focus and Hamlet, inevitably, the pivotal text.
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.
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.
Richard Hillman
Acknowledgements - Note on Texts and References - Introduction - 'I am Alpha and Omega': By-passing Babel - Tudor Transitions and Ramifications - The Subject of Revenge/The Revenge of the Subject in Elizabethan Drama - Some Unspeakably Tragic Subjects - Some Comic and Tragicomic Subjects - (Off)Staging the Female Subject - Works Cited - Notes - Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.5.1997 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | X, 309 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-333-62899-3 / 0333628993 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-62899-7 / 9780333628997 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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