Shakespeare Studies, January 1st, 2006
Is THERE "CHARACTER" after "theory"? The question suggests the two are adversarial, that the latter works to destroy the former or render it unworkable. Is there then character before "theory," innocent of theory, now or in 1600? One thing the practice of "theory" itself has observed is how theoretical terms such as "character" may be both products of a theory and revisions or interruptions of it. Shakespeare did not invent the notion of dramatic persons. If what he did with them seems to ask an answering innovation of critical vocabulary, what sorts of theory, if any, did he have access to ...
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