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By David Armitage, Conal Condren, Andrew Fitzmaurice

ISBN-10: 052176808X

ISBN-13: 9780521768085

This can be the 1st collaborative quantity to put Shakespeare's works in the panorama of early sleek political idea. until eventually lately, literary students haven't commonly taken care of Shakespeare as a player within the political considered his time, in contrast to his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. whilst, historians of political proposal have not often became their awareness to significant works of poetry and drama. A individual overseas and interdisciplinary workforce of participants examines the entire diversity of Shakespeare's writings on the way to problem traditional interpretations of performs imperative to the canon, equivalent to Hamlet; open up novel views on works infrequently thought of to be political, comparable to the Sonnets; and concentrate on those who were mostly ignored, equivalent to The Merry other halves of Windsor. the result's a coherent and difficult portrait of Shakespeare's distinct engagement with the attribute questions of early smooth political concept.

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With the much later encounter between the invasive Cade and the protective landowner, Alexander Iden:   On which see especially Natasha Korda, Shakespeare’s Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (Philadelphia, ); B. J. Sokol and Mary Sokol, Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage (Cambridge, ); Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson and A. R. , Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England (Toronto, ). Nancy E. Wright and A.

Indeed, Shakespeare appeared to be wearing the lenses with which Boccalini claimed it was possible to look upon ‘mightie men or great Lords’.  Richard III, for example, is a triumph in the exploration of tyranny through the stage image of Machiavellian evil. No other character in the canon surpasses Richard’s depths of dissimulation, shamelessness (‘Conscience is but a word that cowards use’: Richard III, . .  His rule was a fitting climax to the exploration of political thought across the three Henry VI plays.

It is notable that it does not mean that Coriolanus had deprived the people of their freedoms: in this particular context, the sense of ‘property’ as individual possession is not part of the semantic field surrounding the term ‘(dis)propertied’. Likewise, when Hamlet laments his inability to speak on behalf of his dead father: no, not for a king Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made (Hamlet, . . –) he does not imply that Claudius had damnably dispossessed old Hamlet as well as killed him.

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