This essay provides the answer to these and many other conundrums. All of Shakespeare's time-riddles in "Romeo and Juliet"—even its hugger-mugger pace of meet-love-marry-die-are artifacts of the playwright's previously unrecognized "mise-en-scène": he set his story in 1582—the year ...
All of Shakespeare's time-riddles in "Romeo and Juliet"—even its hugger-mugger pace of meet-love-marry-die-are artifacts of the playwright's previously unrecognized "mise-en-scène": he set his story in 1582—the year of the Gregorian calendar reform—the shortest year in Europe in more...
I had an abiding interest in historical narrative artifacts, and that shaped my view of narrative. I saw it as millennia of storytelling with humans reinterpreting their stories over time, pushing the evolution of the narrative along with the evolution of technology. Dialogism, and Kristeva's ...