Abstract
In Shakespeare’s King John, there axe complexities and constitutive contradictions in the play’s “visible economy.” (This visible economy is the relationship among visibility, power, subjectivity, and gender as this relationship is articulated through monarchical display and the metaphor of the social body.) The theatrical demonstration of power that defines Elizabethan authority — what Stephen Greenblatt has identified as “privileged visibility” — is, in fact, an important feature of the text. A subtext of whoredom, however, disrupts King John’s presentation of royal identity and provokes what Francis Barker has termed the “disarticulation of reality” figured as the mutilation of the social body.
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