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Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative: 22 (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

Book 10 of 65: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Loxley, James; Robson, Mark

 
9780415993272: Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative: 22 (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041599327X ISBN 13: 9780415993272
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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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About the Author

James Loxley is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Mark Robson teaches at the University of Nottingham.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041599327X
ISBN 13 
9780415993272
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
146