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- Title
Moral Agency as Readerly Subjectivity: Shakespeare's Parolles and the Theophrastan Character Sketch.
- Authors
BERG, JAMES E.
- Abstract
The article discusses the Shakespearean character and the Theophrastan character sketch. The author argues that William Shakespeare and his contemporaries believed that moral agency is the essence of personhood and is a phenomenon that elicits sympathy and makes fictional characters seem real. The author supports his argument with 17th-century moral character sketches and a brief examination of the character Parolles in "All's Well That Ends Well," who demonstrates that Shakespeare considered moral agency as the posture of a person struggling to read.
- Subjects
LITERARY characters; CHARACTER sketches; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); CONDUCT of life; SYMPATHY; ELIZABETHAN (Literary period); 17TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Shakespeare Studies (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation), 2012, Vol 40, p36
- ISSN
0582-9399
- Publication type
Literary Criticism