Loose Notes on Stoicism Interiority and Epistemological Crisis in Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature grade: 13 Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik) course: Seventeenth-Century Women's Writing language: English abstract: As the title indicates this paper presents a rather loose collection or perhaps a montage of observations I made while closely reading and thinking about Cary's famous closet drama. These observations concern among other things the heroine's self-fashioning as a Stoic subject; the resulting problems of continual identity interiority and subjection; the linguistic dimension of Herod's madness which I (owing much of my outlook on things to Foucault) read as an instance of escalating epistemological crisis.