This comprehensive collection demonstrates a complete range of writing on Shakespeare and politics. It has shifts of focus as diverse as biography, text and contexts, language and film from literary, historical, religious, theoretical and cultural perspectives. A new introductory article by John J. Joughin provides a commentary on the essays, relates them to other work in the field and presents an overview of the subject.
This comprehensive collection demonstrates a complete range of writing on Shakespeare and politics. It has shifts of focus as diverse as biography, text and contexts, language and film from literary, historical, religious, theoretical and cultural perspectives. A new introductory article by John J. Joughin provides a commentary on the essays, relates them to other work in the field and presents an overview of the subject.
Lecturer, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, editor of The Cambridge Shakespeare Library, co-editor of Shakespeare and Race and Shakespeare and Sexuality.
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1. Shakespeare and politics: an introduction John J. Joughin 2. Shakespeare and politics Blair Worden 3. Henry VIII and the deconstruction of history Peter L. Rudnytsky 4. Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus Anne Barton 5. Richard II and the realities of power S. Schoenbaum 6 Plutarch, insurrection, and dearth in Coriolanus David George 7. Some versions of coup d'etat, rebellion and revolution Pierre Sahel 8. Language, politics, and poverty in Shakespearian drama William C. Carroll 9. 'Demystifying the mystery of state': King Lear and the world turned upside down Margot Heinemann 10. Venetian culture and the politics of Othello Mark Matheson 11. The Bard and Ireland: Shakespeare's Protestantism as politics in disguise Paul Franssen 12. Henry V as working-house of ideology Gunter Walch 13. 'Fashion it thus': Julius Caesar and the politics of theatrical representation John Drakakis 14. Take me to your Leda Terence Hawkes 15. Macbeth on film: politics E. Pearlman 16. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: everything's nice in America? Barbara Hodgdon.
1. Shakespeare and politics: an introduction John J. Joughin 2. Shakespeare and politics Blair Worden 3. Henry VIII and the deconstruction of history Peter L. Rudnytsky 4. Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus Anne Barton 5. Richard II and the realities of power S. Schoenbaum 6 Plutarch, insurrection, and dearth in Coriolanus David George 7. Some versions of coup d'etat, rebellion and revolution Pierre Sahel 8. Language, politics, and poverty in Shakespearian drama William C. Carroll 9. 'Demystifying the mystery of state': King Lear and the world turned upside down Margot Heinemann 10. Venetian culture and the politics of Othello Mark Matheson 11. The Bard and Ireland: Shakespeare's Protestantism as politics in disguise Paul Franssen 12. Henry V as working-house of ideology Gunter Walch 13. 'Fashion it thus': Julius Caesar and the politics of theatrical representation John Drakakis 14. Take me to your Leda Terence Hawkes 15. Macbeth on film: politics E. Pearlman 16. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: everything's nice in America? Barbara Hodgdon.
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