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Self-Effacement And Autonomy In Shakespeare, Kirby Farrell Prof
Self-Effacement And Autonomy In Shakespeare, Kirby Farrell Prof
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This is a chapter from my _Play, Death, and Heroism in Shakespeare_ (1988). It identifies a pattern of behavior in Sx and Early Modern culture, in which children learn to efface themselves in order to achieve (or "earn") autonomy. The paradigm has significant implications for the structure of authority in EarlyModern culture, and in Shakespeare supports the fantasies of heroic apotheosis everywhere in his work.