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- Title
Reclaiming Character?
- Authors
Crewe, Jonathan
- Abstract
The author discusses the relationship between character and theory in relation to studies of English dramatist William Shakespeare. Character is an extraordinarily robust category of literary cognition and analysis. English dramatist William Shakespeare questions character as much as he produces it by means that include the comedy of mistaken identity, cross-dressing that highlights the use of boy actors in women's roles, and the frequent erasure of idiosyncratic character at the level of language.
- Subjects
LITERARY characters; CHARACTERS of William Shakespeare; ENGLISH drama (Comedy); ENGLISH dramatists; COMEDY; ELIZABETHAN (Literary period); 17TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Shakespeare Studies (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation), 2006, Vol 34, p35
- ISSN
0582-9399
- Publication type
Literary Criticism