Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Turner, Early Modern Theatricality SP - 402-22 ID - bbbc1936 T1 - "Duel" AU - Kottman, Paul A PY - 2013 DA - 2013 LA - English AB - Explores Merchant of Venice's response to "philosophical dramaturgy" in the form of the duel in Hobbes's Leviathan and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Asserts that, "Rather than imagine that there is an elemental dramatic 'structure' . . . , Shakespeare shows how we invariably begin to act . . . from within a specific human-historical setting, with all its attendant baggage and precise conundrums." ER -