Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Drama History & Criticism, British
Cover of the book Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative by James Loxley, Mark Robson, Taylor and Francis
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Author: James Loxley, Mark Robson ISBN: 9781135930004
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 5, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: James Loxley, Mark Robson
ISBN: 9781135930004
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 5, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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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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:

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