Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Armitage, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early modern political thought. Until recently, literary scholars have not generally treated Shakespeare as a participant in the political thought of his time, unlike his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. At the same time, historians of political thought have rarely turned their attention to major works of poetry and drama. A distinguished international and interdisciplinary team of contributors examines the full range of Shakespeare's writings in order to challenge conventional interpretations of plays central to the canon, such as Hamlet; open up novel perspectives on works rarely considered to be political, such as the Sonnets; and focus on those that have been largely neglected, such as The Merry Wives of Windsor. The result is a coherent and challenging portrait of Shakespeare's distinctive engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511629747
• Artikelnr.: 38185037

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice; Part I.
Contexts: 1. Shakespeare's properties David Armitage; 2. The active and
contemplative lives in Shakespeare's plays Cathy Curtis; 3. Shakespeare and
the ethics of authority Stephen Greenblatt; 4. Shakespeare and the politics
of superstition Susan James; Part II. The Court: 5. Counsel, succession and
the politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets Cathy Shrank; 6. Educating Hamlet and
Prince Hal Aysha Pollnitz; 7. The corruption of Hamlet Andrew Fitzmaurice;
8. Unfolding 'the properties of government': the case of Measure for
Measure and the history of political thought Conal Condren; 9. Shakespeare
and the politics of co-authorship: Henry VIII Jennifer Richards; Part III.
The Commonwealth: 10. Putting the city into Shakespeare's city comedy Phil
Withington; 11. Talking to the animals: persuasion, counsel and their
discontents in Julius Caesar David Colclough; 12. Political rhetoric and
citizenship in Coriolanus Markku Peltonen; 13. Shakespeare and the best
state of a commonwealth Eric Nelson; Afterword: Shakespeare and humanist
culture Quentin Skinner.