Philip Goldfarb Styrt

Shakespeare in the Present

Political Lessons under Biden

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Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeareâ s plays to post-Trump America.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Focus on Literature
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 90
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781032363288
• ISBN-10: 1032363282
• Artikelnr.: 70364475

Autorenporträt

Philip Goldfarb Styrt is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago in 2015, and his first book, Shakespeare's Political Imagination: The Historicism of Setting was published in 2021 by Arden Shakespeare.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Shakespeare and Biden
Partisan Polarization
Polarization in late Republican Rome
Caesar and Antony beyond Trump
Partisanship closer to home
The American War of the Roses
Pretextual Insurrections and Unpunished Crimes
Henry Bolingbroke's inheritance and Richard II's throne
1399 and 2021
Elections, disputes, and danger to the state
The importance of consequences
The Tyranny of Expectations
From Hal to Harry
"Nothing can come of nothing"
Senator Joe and President Biden
Public negotiations
Inconstant Coalitions
Powerful allies
Wavering commitments
My 80% friend
Illegitimate Justice
The Queen and the Jew
Court-packing
Catering to self-interest
Lost France and Lost Afghanistan
France forever lost
The Hundred Years War and the "forever war"
Conclusion: Shakespeare and Presentism