Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama - Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	R Hillman
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	309
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-62899-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	0-333-62899-3
Barcode:	9780333628997

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