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Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

By James Loxley; Mark Robson; Amitai Etzioni

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2013
ISBN
9781135929930, 9780415993272
LCC
PR2986 -- .L69 2013eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1125837 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser.
Edition
First Edition
Pages
158\0
Time added
2023-08-04 17:56:36
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Description

This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of 'performativity' to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can enable readings of Shakespeare and Jonson that challenge the dominant methodological frameworks within which those plays have come to be read; demonstrate that the thought of performativity does not come to rest in the simplicity of method or instrumentality, and that it resists its own claim that language and action might be understood as unproblematically instrumental; demonstrate that this self-resistance occurs or takes place as a moment in the process of articulating the claims of the performative, and that this process is itself in an important sense dramatic.

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