셰익스피어의 『좋으실 대로』에 나타난 소수성

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It from Deleuze's minor concept

This paper discusses Shakespeare's As You Like It (1598-99), one of the traditional romantic comedies, as a minor literature by exploring Deleuze's concepts of a minority. A minority, which not only deviates from the norm but also has the ability to shake and change its system, is associated with creative and positive resistance in that it creates a new way of life, which entails becoming. In As You Like It, Shakespeare does not follow the characteristics of traditional comedy and is away from the central language through other expression methods. Characters' transformations by disguising themselves, the actions and language of the characters, the shape of the forest, and the ending in As You Like It deviate from traditional comedy. Presenting new things outside repetition of tradition stimulates imagination and provides the audience and readers with an experience of internal change. Shakespeare shows us the inherent virtuality of human beings for transformation through his language. In this respect, As You Like It acts as a literary-machine that proposes and triggers a different way of life.