SOURCE: "'So Unsecret to Ourselves': Notorious Identity and the Material Subject in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida," in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4, Winter, 1989, pp. 413-23, 33-40.
In the excerpt below, Charnes discusses how Shakespeare represents his characters in Troilus and Cressida and examines the distinctions between public and private forms of desire in the play.
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