Subjectivity and objectivity: the case of Sir Thomas More

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My paper focuses on consumption considered to be physically or morally reprehensible or strange as a distinct indication of alterity in the play Sir Thomas More.This is an inherently interesting text since it is thought that part of it represents the only piece of creative writing by Shakespeare that has survived in manuscript.The textual history of this play and its authorship is complicated but may be briefly summarised.The play exists solely as British Library manuscript Harley 7368, in several hands, and comprising 22 sheets.Most of the writing is in the hand of Anthony Munday, although additional sheets in different hands have been inserted.The front of the first sheet contains a provisional licence from Edmund Tilney, the state censor, requiring alterations before public performance.The additions might represent changes to the play made after Tilney's objections were known but this theory is difficult to sustain because in some ways the changes (such as the re-writing of the scen

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