Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought

Informationen zum Autor David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. Conal Condren is a Scientia Professor Emeritus at the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Professor at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland. Andrew Fitzmaurice is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. Klappentext Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare's engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought. Zusammenfassung This volume is the first historically informed collection of essays focussing on Shakespeare's engagement with the political thinking of his time. Covering the full range of Shakespeare's work! a distinguished team of contributors provides a coherent and challenging portrait of Shakespeare's engagement with the questions of early modern political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....

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• Authors: David Armitage, David (Harvard University Armitage, David Condren Armitage
• Assisted by: David Armitage (Editor), Armitage David (Editor), Conal Condren (Editor), Condren Conal (Editor), Andrew Fitzmaurice (Editor), Fitzmaurice Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107692503
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69250-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; History of Ideas, English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean