Langley, E;
(2013)
The path to which wild error leads: A Lucretian Comedy of Errors.
Textual Practice
, 28
(2)
pp. 161-187.
10.1080/0950236X.2013.835744.
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Abstract
Disrupting the causal progress of his comic design, Shakespeare's narrative swerve introduces the accidental into a teleological plot, allowing the errancy of individual will while promoting new energetic narrative structure. Offering a Lucretian reading of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, I consider how the playwright's complex association of identity, chance, and genre can be informed by philosophical atomism, approached along the trajectory of a readerly clinamen.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The path to which wild error leads: A Lucretian Comedy of Errors |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0950236X.2013.835744 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2013.835744 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, Lucretius, De rerum natura, clinamen, atom, Serres, chance, subjectivity, swerve, accident, coincidence |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10028152 |
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