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2 hours ago · If we accept Butler’s reading of the anxieties about Charles’ use of the law (what Butler describes as ‘whether there was a point beyond which legal correctness no longer satisfied as political justification’), the literal movement of the procession of lawyers towards the King—from and through nameless unidentified spectators—has further symbolic meaning as an embassy insisting on ...
2 hours ago · Abstract. This chapter starts with a discussion of early modern travel narratives in the context of what Kim F. Hall calls their ‘obsessive linking of apes and African through metaphor’. It offers a reading of Caliban which plays off retellings of the story of the pedlar and the apes to explain his fury at Trinculo and Stefano for stopping ...
