How Shakespeare Put Politics On The Stage
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How Shakespeare Put Politics On The Stage
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Author : Peter Lake
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-15
How Shakespeare Put Politics On The Stage written by Peter Lake and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with History categories.
A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare’s plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare’s England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to which Shakespeare’s plays speak to the depth and sophistication of Elizabethan political culture and the Elizabethan imagination. Lake reveals the complex ways in which Shakespeare’s major plays engaged with the events of his day, particularly regarding the uncertain royal succession, theological and doctrinal debates, and virtue and virtù in politics. Through his plays, Lake demonstrates, Shakespeare was boldly in conversation with his audience about a range of contemporary issues. This remarkable literary and historical analysis pulls the curtain back on what Shakespeare was really telling his audience and what his plays tell us today about the times in which they were written.
How Shakespeare Put Politics On The Stage
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Author : Peter Lake
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
How Shakespeare Put Politics On The Stage written by Peter Lake and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with History categories.
The politics of virtue -- Honour and its enemies: women on top - again -- Anti-popery -- Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war -- CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means -- The making of a Machiavel -- Monstrous bodies and providential signs -- Signs and prophecies -- The audience as 'high all- seer' -- Ambiguities of 'evil counsel' -- From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy -- Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future -- CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared
Shakespeare S Early History Plays
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Author : Donald Watson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1990-06-18
Shakespeare S Early History Plays written by Donald Watson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.
Perspectives On Politics In Shakespeare
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Author : John Albert Murley
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2006
Perspectives On Politics In Shakespeare written by John Albert Murley and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Drama categories.
Shows us that Shakespeare's poetic imagination displays the essence of politics and inspires reflection on the fundamental questions of statesmanship and political leadership. This book explores themes such as classical republicanism and liberty, the rule of law and morality, the nature and limits of statesmanship, and the character of democracy.
Shakespeare S Early History Plays
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Author : Donald G. Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Shakespeare S Early History Plays written by Donald G. Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare And The Political Way
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Author : Elizabeth Frazer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-30
Shakespeare And The Political Way written by Elizabeth Frazer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-30 with Political Science categories.
Studies of Shakespeare and politics often ask the question whether his dramas are on the side of aristocratic or monarchical sovereign authority, or are on the side of those who resist; whether he endorses a standard view of male and patriarchal authority, or whether his cross-dressing heroines put him among feminist thinkers. Scholars also show that Shakespeare's representations of rule, revolt, and arguments about laws and constitutions draw on and allude to stories and real events that were contemporaneous for him, as well as historical ones. Building on scholarship about Shakespeare and politics, this book argues that Shakespeare's representations and stagings of political power, sovereignty, resistance, and controversy are more complex. The merits of political life, as opposed to life governed by monetary exchange, religious truth, supernatural power, military heroism, or interpersonal love, are rehearsed in the plots. And the clashing and contradictory meanings of politics — its association with free truthful speech but also with dishonest hypocrisy, with open action and argument as much as occult behind the scenes manoevring — are dramatized by him, to show that although violence, lies, and authoritarianism do often win out in the world there is another kind of politics, and a political way that we would do well to follow when we can. The book offers original readings of the characters and plots of Shakespeare's dramas in order to illustrate the subtlety of his pictures of political power, how it works, and what is wrong and right with it.
Shakespeare And Politics
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Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-02
Shakespeare And Politics written by Catherine M. S. Alexander and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Selection of sixteen provocative and stimulating essays on the complex subject of Shakespeare and politics.
Shakespeare S Political Drama
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Author : Alexander Leggatt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Shakespeare S Political Drama written by Alexander Leggatt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare. Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power. Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience - as well as the politics of personal relationships. In this book Alexander Leggatt concentrates on the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and losing, of public power in the state, in the English and Roman histories. He sees Shakespeare as concerned both with things as they are, and with things as they ought to be: his depiction of public life includes clear appraisals of the one, and powerful images of the other. It is the interplay of the two that makes the drama.
Staging Politics
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Author : Wolfgang Iser
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1993
Staging Politics written by Wolfgang Iser and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Drama categories.
In a series of readings, the author examines Shakespeare's five major history plays and accounts for their continued popularity, both in film and on stage. He examines the historical context out of which the plays emerged, and describes how the period gave birth to a modern form of politics.
Hamlet S Moment
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Author : András Kiséry
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Hamlet S Moment written by András Kiséry and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation. Drama turned from open, military conflict to diplomacy and court policy, from the public contestation of power to the technologies of government. Tragedies of state turned into tragedies of state servants, inviting the public to consider politics as a profession-to imagine what it meant to have a political career. By staging intelligence derived from diplomatic sources, and by inflecting the action and discourse of their plays with a Machiavellian style of political analysis, playwrights such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Chapman, and Marston transformed political knowledge into a more broadly useful type of cultural capital, something even people without political agency could deploy in conversation and use in claiming social distinction. In Hamlet's moment, the public stage created the political competence that enabled the rise of the modern public sphere.