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Article: Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 1999
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Ivo Kamps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 255 pp. $54.95. ISBN: 0521-56155-8.
These two books take on very large topics, subjectivity and history, in very different ways. Both seek to incorporate postmodern conceptions of their topics with early modern models and representations of each, with varying degrees of success.
Richard Hillman's interests are in the shifting theories of subjectivity in English drama from the middle ages up until the closing of the theaters in 1642. His specific focus is on self-speaking, that is soliloquies, but also "monologues, asides, and even silences" (1). Hillman distances himself from both New ...