A Scribbled Form: Shakespeare's Missing Magna Carta

For while he may not have staged Runnymede, he did dramatize the formation of public opinion as itself a constituting act, when he had the workman deliberate with "open mouth" while "his iron did on the anvil cool" (ll. 196, 195). Because it is indeed based on nothing, this refer...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Shakespeare quarterly 2016-10, Vol.67 (3), p.344-370
1. Verfasser:	Wilson, Richard
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	British & Irish literature Charters Dramatists English literature Essays Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593) Oral cavity Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
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Zusammenfassung:	For while he may not have staged Runnymede, he did dramatize the formation of public opinion as itself a constituting act, when he had the workman deliberate with "open mouth" while "his iron did on the anvil cool" (ll. 196, 195). Because it is indeed based on nothing, this referendum decision is as critical in the history of representation as the Prince's "pause" (Hamlet, 3.1.70).
ISSN:	0037-3222 1538-3555 1538-3555
DOI:	10.1353/shq.2016.0040