Status Updates From Shakespeare: Complete Works

Titus Andronicus

Inheritor of classical conventions from Seneca and Athenian dramatists whereby the engine of tragedy is the conflation on the one hand of all executive and judicial offices in the person of the monarch as well as on the other hand the collapse of the despotic functions of the monarch's oikos with those offices of the polis aforesaid. NB the only good parent here is villainous atheist Aaron.

The Taming of the Shrew 3/5

Merchant of Venice - 4/5

1 Henry VI

the historical timeline collapses events of 1429, 1440, 1453, and others into a single juxtaposition in order to stage an epistemic rupture through Talbot’s obsolescence and Joan’s techne—wherein we read sorcery as cipher for engineering. The old order is not ready for the event, embodied in artillery, that renders its virtues unintelligible—the world is changed and none of them is ready for it.

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3 Henry VI

Develops the thesis of the prior text, wherein sovereign silence allows for a agambenian anomie, a hobbesian wasteland--sharply noted when Henry attempts to claim a right in the discussion, only to be ignored.

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I am reading the Hamlet only at this time.