Shakespeare's Politics
eBook - PDF

Shakespeare's Politics

A Contextual Introduction

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shakespeare's Politics

A Contextual Introduction

About this book

Shakespeare's Politics is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. The clear, jargon-free narrative introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England.
The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics. By reading Shakespeare alongside contemporary documents students will be able to develop their own informed critical interpretations of the plays. Shakespeare's Politics is essential for anyone studying Shakespeare while tutors and postgraduate students will find the book's up-to-date survey of modern Shakespeare criticism useful and provocative.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780826493064
eBook ISBN
9780826463142

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Note on the Texts
  4. Critical Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 Civilization and the Debate on Human Nature
  6. Chapter 2 Gender
  7. Chapter 3 Forms of Government
  8. Chapter 4 The Just Ruler
  9. Chapter 5 Rebellion
  10. Chapter 6 Providence and History
  11. Chapter 7 Natural Law
  12. Postscript Shakespeare's Politics and Modern Criticism
  13. Chronological Table
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index