Contribution to Book
Self-Effacement and Autonomy in Shakespeare
Play, Death, and Heroism in Shakespeare
(1988)
Abstract
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.
Keywords
- identity,
- magical thinking,
- Shakespeare,
- Renaissance,
- mentality,
- self-effacement,
- autonomy,
- apotheosis,
- myth,
- self-aggrandizement,
- denial,
- Ernest Becker
Disciplines
Publication Date
1988
Publisher
U N Carolina Press
Citation Information
kirby farrell. "Self-Effacement and Autonomy in Shakespeare" Chapel Hill, NCPlay, Death, and Heroism in Shakespeare (1988) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kirby_farrell1/8/