Mimi Hunter

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Marriage is here indistinguishable from the watery commingling that seems to be the recurrent difficulty of individuation. What The Comedy of Errors seems instead to suggest is that characterization is a property not of the internal but of the external. Things outside us bolster or secure our identity. In particular, it is in being recognized by others that identity is fixed; it is by operating within a social system that personhood is achieved and secured.
This Is Shakespeare
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