The Picture of Nobody: Shakespeare’s anti-authorship

Authors

  • Richard Wilson Kingston University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v3i1.1067

Keywords:

William Shakespeare, biography, law, deconstruction, literary celebrity, Richard Wilson

Abstract

"The Picture of Nobody" posits that Shakespeare's birth as an author in print was “aborted” by strategies of absence that avoided institutionalized forms of authorial representation. Wilson argues that these possibly deliberate acts of evasion and self-concealment are linked to early modern problems of social class and to Shakespeare's ambition to become "a subject without an identity".

Author Biography

Richard Wilson, Kingston University

Richard Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London. His books include Will Power, Secret Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in French Theory. He is the author of numerous articles in academic journals, and is on the editorial board of the journal Shakespeare.

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Published

2014-03-31

How to Cite

Wilson, R. (2014). The Picture of Nobody: Shakespeare’s anti-authorship. uthorship, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v3i1.1067

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Special Topic: Reconfiguring Authorship

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