Notorious Identity
Charnes, Linda![Notorious Identity](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/143/1432778/CHSBZCOP031432778.jpg)
Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra--these were figures of intense signification long before Shakespeare took up the task of giving them new life on the stage. And when he did, Linda Charnes argues, he used these legendary figures to explore a new kind of fame--notorious identity--an infamy based not on the moral and ethical "use value" of legend but on a commodification of identity itself: one that must be understood in th...