WHAT DOES A SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTER SAY WHEN HE OR SHE SAYS "I"? EXPLORING NOTIONS OF 'SELF' IN SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMA

Fernanda Teixeira de Medeiros

Resumo


What does a Shakespearean character say when she or he says "I"? That is the question that encapsulates a reflection on the representation of subjectivity in Shakespeare's drama. To examine the modes Shakespeare employs to build his characters' experience of their own selves in tragedy, comedy, romance and history plays, I propose a discussion of the early modern conception of self, especially the one we find in Michel de Montaigne's essays, as well as an investigation of early modern discursive practices where models of subjectivity were being engendered: the rhetorical education provided by grammar schools; the topography of inwardness as the site of the "true self"; and the Stoic doctrine, mostly in its belief  that reason governs human nature.

Keywords: Early Modern Self. Representation of Subjectivity. Shakespeare's drama.

 

DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20190032

 

 

 

 


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DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20190032


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