Richard Wilson

Free Will (eBook, ePUB)

Art and power on Shakespeare's stage

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111043
• Artikelnr.: 48795062

Autorenporträt

Richard Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University

Inhaltsangabe

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