“Millions of false eyes / Are stuck upon thee.” The scope of surveillance in Measure for Measure

In this paper, I treat surveillance as the nexus of the ethical, political and aesthetical aspects of Measure for Measure. To this effect, I first relate the surveillance practices of Shakespeare’s time to some of the play’s prevalent thematic pairs: imprisonment and punishment, authority and the pr...

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Main Author: Sébastien Lefait
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2013-01-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2594