A Shakespearean subject - Shylock in The Merchant of Venice

This research entitled A Shakespearean subject - Shylock in The Merchant of Venice aims to investigate the process of subject constitution within Shakespearean dramatic action. The theoretical reflection which is based on the studies of Michael Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis in dialogue with Dominique Maingueneau's literary discourse and the notions advocated by Mikhail Bakhtin is constituted by examining the corpus made up of the statements of the character Shylock from the Shakespearean literary work - The Merchant of Venice. Within the dramatic action the subject is inscribed in different discursive formations which place him in different discursive positions within the event. In this way when the subject takes a position within the dramatic action he is circumscribed within a given discursive formation. This position makes him insert himself into the interdiscursive and intradiscursive thread in which we have the engendering of his process of constitution as a subject in through and of discourse. This process in turn is based on the language practices established in the enunciative event.