The End of Kinship
"Measure for Measure," Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23152240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Ann Bushman, M Scott Shell (0000-0002-0439-1534), Marc Shell |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-1299 • E-ISSN: 1939-9014 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1347021 |
| OpenAlex | W2032543402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In this commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange and political order. At the crux of the play, he notes, the novice nun Isabella accuses her brother Claudio: Is't not a kind of incest, to take life/From thine own sister's shame?. Shell's analysis shows how Claudio's request is a kind of incest in a reading that extends his earlier work on philosophical and literary economies. Developing fully the thematic role of the monastic orders in Shakespeare's drama, Shell demonstrates that the play lays bare some of Western culture's most fundamental tensions - between natural and political teleologies, between Christian and political ideals of brotherhood and the incest taboo, and between the pragmatic imperative to classify people and the moral imperative to treat them all alike.
Data mining · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics) · Kinship · Measure (data warehouse) · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2020 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |