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The Taming of the Shrew
analysis of a disciplinary program over 'madness' wherein a despotic gender regime constructs a compliant subject. As with Silvia at the end of TGV, the objections of Katherina, Bianca, and the Widow are preempted so as to keep this text within 'comedy'--if they could speak their own ethics, it would amount to Hegelian impasse; readers otherwise see the tragedy that the text disallows.
— Jan 03, 2026 06:11AM
analysis of a disciplinary program over 'madness' wherein a despotic gender regime constructs a compliant subject. As with Silvia at the end of TGV, the objections of Katherina, Bianca, and the Widow are preempted so as to keep this text within 'comedy'--if they could speak their own ethics, it would amount to Hegelian impasse; readers otherwise see the tragedy that the text disallows.
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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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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.
sologdin
is on page 89 of 1344
2 Henry VI
the silence that was imposed on Silvia and Bianca in the two prior plays in order to constitute order and prevent tragedy is here assumed by the sovereign as the marker of holiness--instead of speaking as holder of the office of executive, his 'bookish rule' offers prayers that can only defer judgment--an unholy dereliction as witches, false miracles, ghosts, and ochlocratic violence proliferate.
— Jan 05, 2026 07:28AM
the silence that was imposed on Silvia and Bianca in the two prior plays in order to constitute order and prevent tragedy is here assumed by the sovereign as the marker of holiness--instead of speaking as holder of the office of executive, his 'bookish rule' offers prayers that can only defer judgment--an unholy dereliction as witches, false miracles, ghosts, and ochlocratic violence proliferate.
sologdin
is on page 24 of 1344
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
There's a moment in III.i wherein one of the purported gentlemen finds himself in a dilemma between the duties of amacita and ministerium when he decides to shift his devotion from his betrothed to his friend's betrothed. It's similar to the opening of R&J wherein Romeo abandons Rosaline upon sight of Juliet--though this one resolves implausibly as comedy despite attempted rape.
— Jan 01, 2026 08:12AM
There's a moment in III.i wherein one of the purported gentlemen finds himself in a dilemma between the duties of amacita and ministerium when he decides to shift his devotion from his betrothed to his friend's betrothed. It's similar to the opening of R&J wherein Romeo abandons Rosaline upon sight of Juliet--though this one resolves implausibly as comedy despite attempted rape.
