Performing Privacy and Gender in Early Modern Literature

Trull, Mary

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“…Mary E. Trull's discussion of overhearing, a key trope in early modern works, is also useful here: 'each performance of privacy through overheard lament conjures up a public with a distinctive style that evokes specific affects and establishes an ethics for relations between audiences and performers'. 26 As Trull suggests, the public/private boundary in the early modern period was flexible; texts of the period commonly exploit this flexibility using the trope of overhearing to reveal a character's secret thoughts. Overhearing renders public that which is intended as private.…”

Section: Privacy and Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth and Privacy in Romeo and Juliet

Prusko

2016

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Passionate, dramatic, secretive, and misunderstood, Romeo and Juliet represent adolescence in ways that strike a familiar chord for audiences today. My essay suggests, however, that these young characters likely appeared to Shakespeare’s original audiences as troubling, unsettling figures, because Romeo and Juliet dismantles extant understandings of young people in Shakespeare’s England. I argue that the play’s staging evokes the guarded interiority of its young protagonists and establishes private spaces in which they constitute themselves as adolescent subjects. Private space, in turn, makes possible a private language: a kind of teen-speak recognizable today but among its earliest manifestations.

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Section: Privacy and Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%