sologdin’s Reviews > The Complete Works > Status Update
sologdin
is on page 283 of 1344
Edward III
This text develops, across multiple authorial hands, the beginnings of a critique of nominalism insofar as the 'name' of something (death, the king, the husband) is placed in nuanced relation to it affiliated substance. Like Talbot in 1 H VI, the substance and the shadow are complicated abstractions. That said, scene 2 (one of the Shakespeare's) is a lovely little mock ars poetica.
— 5 hours, 59 min ago
This text develops, across multiple authorial hands, the beginnings of a critique of nominalism insofar as the 'name' of something (death, the king, the husband) is placed in nuanced relation to it affiliated substance. Like Talbot in 1 H VI, the substance and the shadow are complicated abstractions. That said, scene 2 (one of the Shakespeare's) is a lovely little mock ars poetica.
Like flag
sologdin’s Previous Updates
sologdin
is on page 255 of 1344
'The Rape of Lucrece'
As with Richard III, will sets the limit of conscience for Tarquin--he effects what Hobbes would later call the 'last appetite in deliberating' vis-a-vis his planned crime, whereas a parallel solitary internal agon proceeds afterward within Lucrece, regarding the cause of the assault. For Tarquin, she is besieged Troy to be destroyed, a militarization of eros; but for her, she is Philomela.
— Jan 15, 2026 09:02AM
As with Richard III, will sets the limit of conscience for Tarquin--he effects what Hobbes would later call the 'last appetite in deliberating' vis-a-vis his planned crime, whereas a parallel solitary internal agon proceeds afterward within Lucrece, regarding the cause of the assault. For Tarquin, she is besieged Troy to be destroyed, a militarization of eros; but for her, she is Philomela.
sologdin
is on page 236 of 1344
'Venus and Adonis'
After losing both the object of her affection as well as the debate between lust and love, Venus 'immures' herself on Paphos to remain the invisible legislator of eros, as disclosed through her nomothetic prophecy which includes all manner of things, including her own role at Troy.
— Jan 14, 2026 06:49AM
After losing both the object of her affection as well as the debate between lust and love, Venus 'immures' herself on Paphos to remain the invisible legislator of eros, as disclosed through her nomothetic prophecy which includes all manner of things, including her own role at Troy.
sologdin
is on page 222 of 1344
Richard III
Richard ultimately fears 'shadow' rather than 'substance' because to him sovereignty is not a matter of bodies distributed through space but of manufactured consent, the theatricality of authority producing popular acclaim rather than rights 'due by birth.' The two wooing scenes are constitutive of theatrical sovereignty.
— Jan 13, 2026 10:01AM
Richard ultimately fears 'shadow' rather than 'substance' because to him sovereignty is not a matter of bodies distributed through space but of manufactured consent, the theatricality of authority producing popular acclaim rather than rights 'due by birth.' The two wooing scenes are constitutive of theatrical sovereignty.
sologdin
is on page 182 of 1344
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.
— Jan 11, 2026 08:33AM
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.
sologdin
is on page 154 of 1344
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.
— Jan 09, 2026 06:57AM
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.
sologdin
is on page 124 of 1344
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.
— Jan 07, 2026 08:45AM
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 53 of 1344
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.
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.
