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Article: Staging the Gaze: Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis and Shakespearean Comedy.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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Staging the Gaxe moves between the paradoxes of visio dei in Nicolas of Cusa and the tortuous relay of look and gaze in Lacan. Between these poles Barbara Freedman sketches a history of Renaissance perspective, offers a theory of theater, and performs a series of close readings of Shakespeare. Brilliant, learned, and ambitious, this book would be a tour de force if its skeptical, recursive method did not so often threaten to undermine its achievements.
Staging the Gaze opens with a dazzling interpretation of Durer's print of the perspective artist and his model, in which Freedman shows how the insistent binarisms (male/female, observer/observed, culture/nature) ...