Shakespeare's fugitive politics / Thomas P. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Thomas Page, 1968-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Political and social views.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburg : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

This volume establishes Shakespeare's plays as some of the period's most speculative political literature. It promotes a new understanding of 'fugitive democracy', and establishes the presence of a form of alternative politics in early modern drama, articulated through the countours of theories of sovereignty. It provides new readings of major plays: Coriolanus, King John, Henry V, Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar.

Contents:

1 The Embodied Will in Julius Caesar: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics 1

2 Friendship, Sovereignty and Political Discord in Coriolanus 29

3 Touching Sovereignty in Henry V 65

4 Sovereignty's Scribbled Form in King John 99

5 Body Politics and the Non-Sovereign Exception in Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780748697342

0748697349

OCLC:

945950337