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Article: Elizabethan "modernism," Jacobean "postmodernism": schematizing stir in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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- Papers on Language & Literature
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- March 22, 1995
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Certain features of modernism and postmodernism illuminate a difference between the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods that has thus far resisted satisfactory explanation. Proving that remote decades were protomodern and protopostmodern is not the emphasis of this essay. Instead, I maintain that the concepts and terminology of modernism and postmodernism form metaphors especially effective for grasping Elizabethan and Jacobean writers' struggle to arrest and contain flux in paradigms true to shifting perceptions of the world. In his later Jacobean plays, Shakespeare solved an aesthetic problem of the relationship of flux to ordering stasis to a degree not ...
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