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Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Politics

English · Hardback

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Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic examination of dominant institutions and emergent thought in Shakespeare's society, then meditation of Shakespeare's representation of these.

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1. Introduction; Part I: Early Life; 2. Stratford Politics 1550-1620; 3. Politics and Rhetoric in Grammar Schools and Beyond; 4. Out of This World: The Utopian Politics of Shakespeare Biography; Part II: Social Class; 5. Shakespeare and the People: Staging Political Economy; 6. Shakespeare and the Middle Sorts; 7. Shakespeare, the Court, and the Courtly: Drama as a Public Medium; Part III: The Critical Ferment; 8. Shakespeare and the Lucretian; 9. Shakespeare and Machiavelli; 10. Shakespeare and Montaigne and Politics; 11. Shakespeare, Radical Humanism, and Tudor Reform Movements; 12. Shakespeare, Cosmology and the Politics of Infinity; Part IV: The Theatre World; 13. The Politics of Playing Companies: Audience, Repertory, and Patron; 14. Shakespeare, Theatre and Transgression; Part V: National Politics; 15. Shakespeare and the Justice System; 16. Shakespeare and the Common Law; 17. Shakespeare, Populism and the Public Sphere; 18. Shakespeare and Religion: Against Nostalgia and Against Persecution; 19. Shakespeare and War; 20. "Enter Rumour": The Politics of Speech and Silence in Drama and Everyday Life; 21. Shakespeare and Early Capitalism; Part VI: Shakespeare in the Modern World: Political Appropriations; 22. Shakespeare and Marxism; 23. Feminist Shakespeares; 24. LGBTQ+ Shakespeares; 25. Shakespeare and Racial Capitalism; 26. Shakespeare, Anti-Colonialism, and Struggles for Social Justice; 27. Shakespeare and Ecocriticism


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