ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the literary results of what Cathy Yandell refers to as the 'subjective secularization of time' in early modern England, especially the ways in which subjectivization shapes the respective narrative structures of the literary works under consideration. Shakespeare accordingly frames Lear's progression to a kind of wellness by continuing to reference the pattern of visual mirroring and auditory echo. Insofar demonstrates mimetic displays of credible character motivation and behaviors through the unifying system of humoralism, they adhere within available discourses to verisimilar psycho-physiological representations. Garrett Sullivan acknowledges these concepts in his study of memory and forgetting, tracing the embodied concept of memory and the way it vies with instances of the dramatic subjectivity. In the myth, Narcissus's delusion shatters with the drops of his own tears, and gendered tears famously play a significant role for Lear as well.