Free Will - Art and Power on Shakespeare''s Stage

A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political

List of contents

Introduction
1. The picture of nobody: Shakespeare in the time of the political
2. Welsh roots: Shakespeare's brute part
3. O world: The echoes of Rome in Julius Caesar
4. Denmark's a prison: Hamlet and the rules of art
5. Great stage of fools: King Lear and the king's men
6. Double trouble: Regime change in Macbeth
7. Your crown's awry: The visual turn in Antony and Cleopatra
8. Like an eagle in a dovecot: The intrusion of the time into the play
Epilogue: No sovereignty: Shakespeare's voyage to Greece
Index

About the author

Richard Wilson is Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English at the University of Lancaster

Summary

A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare’s plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political -- .

Product details

• Authors: Richard Wilson
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9780719091797
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9179-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights