Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England

When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern would pluck out the heart of my mystery, he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England: the struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart.

Elizabeth Hanson examines the records of state torture, plays by Shakespeare and Jonson, cony-catching pamphlets, and Francis Bacon's philosophical writing to demonstrate a reconceptualizing of the subject in both the political and philosophical sense of the term.

Author: Elizabeth Hanson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780521090711

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