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Abstract:In act II, scene ii of Shakespeare’s Richard II, the Queen knows something that no one else knows: “Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb, / Is coming towards me.” Criticism has tended to describe the Queen as giving birth to the necessary future of English monarchical history, but this article argues that by placing “Some unborn sorrow” in “Fortune’s womb” rather than her own, Shakespeare’s Queen knows the contingency of a future event that could have gone otherwise than it will. Her word for this form of knowledge is the “conceit”: a figured piece of language that substitutes the elegance of Occam’s Razor for the elaborate infrastructure of a poetic world.
期刊介绍:
SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.