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Sovereign amity : figures of friendship in Shakespearean contexts / Laurie Shannon.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3069.F73 S48 2002
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Van Pelt Library PR3069.F73 S48 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shannon, Laurie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Manners and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Kings and rulers in literature.
- Friendship in literature.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Views on friendship.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge--Manners and customs.
- Friendship.
- Local Subjects:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Views on friendship.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge--Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: "Soveraigne Amitie"PART ONE: THE SOVEREIGN SUBJECT1. The Early Modern Politics of Likeness: Sovereign Reader-Subjects and Listening Kings 2. Chaste Associations in Cary's Tragedy of Mariam: Sexual Mixtures, Same-Sex Friendship, and the Genders of Integrity 3. Professing Friendship: Erotic Prerogatives and "Human Title" in The Two Noble Kinsmen PART TWO: THE SUBJECTED SOVEREIGN4. Ungoverned States: Friendship, Mignonnerie, and the Private Monarch 5. The False Prince and the True Subject: Friendship and Public Institutions in Edward II and The Henriad 6. Friendship's Offices: True Speech and Artificial Bodies in The Winter's Tale Epilogue: Magna Civitas, Magna Solitudo: Bureaucratic Forms and Civic Conditions Bibliography Index
- Contents:
- Prologue: "soveraigne amitie"
- 1. The early modern politics of likeness: sovereign reader-subjects and listening kings
- 2. Chaste associations in Cary's Tragedy of Mariam: sexual mixtures, same-sex friendship, and the genders of integrity
- 3. Professing friendship: erotic prerogatives and "human title" in The two noble kinsmen
- 4. Ungoverned states: friendship, mignonnerie, and the private monarch
- 5. The false prince and the true subject: friendship and public institutions in Edward II and the Henriad
- 6. Friendship's offices: true speech and artificial bodies in The winter's tale
- Epilogue: Magna civitas, Magna solitudo, bureaucratic forms and civic conditions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226749665
- 0226749673
- OCLC:
- 46713061
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