When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart
of [his] mystery', he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently
in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man
to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in
plays but in legal records, correspondence, philosophical writing
and contemporary social description. In this book Elizabeth Hanson
argues that the construction of other people as objects of
discovery signalled a reconceptualizing of the 'subject' in both
the political and philosophical sense of the term. She examines the
records of state torture, plays by Shakespeare and Jonson,
'cony-catching' pamphlets and Francis Bacon's philosophical
writing, to demonstrate that the subject was both under suspicion
and empowered in this period. Her account revises earlier attempts
to locate the emergence of modern subjectivity in the Renaissance,
arguing for a more nuanced and localized understanding of the
relationship with its medieval past.
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