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For this short tribute text, the author has chosen a particular main theme—Green’s critical reading of Shakespeare—considering that this allows an original approach to the work of the drives and representability within the narcissistic constellation. Green uses one of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis—seduction—as a central theoretical pivot of his reading. The author considers that through seduction, and by using models that he draws from Shakespeare’s text, Green intends to approach the theme of the constitution of the object and of drive functioning in narcissism. It is pointed out that Green emphasised that on the model of objectal functioning, the drive also determines the narcissistic functioning. In this context, the Shakespearean hero Mark Antony represents the subject during his emergence from the narcissistic enclave, whereas Prospero is its ‘representer’, who urges the production of psychic events and to the staging and, finally, valuably ‘reveals the meaning of the scene’.