Some Jacobean drama examined and analyzed in term of M. M. Bakhtin’s : the dialogic imagination and the notion of “aporia” by Jacques Derrida

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The traditional view of Jacobean theatre (excluding Shakespeare's) is dramatically ineffective because of its failure to produce consistent characters or coherent moral standards needs be traced to the school of New Criticism, which always sought to find an ultimate unity perceptible through the complexities and paradoxes of literature.

The recognition in postmodernist critical theory of the prevalence in great literature of aporia , of internal parody , and of unresolved clashes of values , with subtexts undercutting main themes to reflect the final complexity of the human condition , offers an opportunity for reconsidering and revaluating these plays .

The change in critical theory in recent years thus permits us to reconsider these plays and to accord them a deeper regard than has been traditional in academic circles.