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The third citizen : Shakespeare's theater and the early modern House of Commons / Oliver Arnold.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Oliver, 1962-
- Series:
- Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
- Parallax
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Political plays, English--History and criticism.
- Political plays, English.
- Rome--In literature.
- Rome.
- Great Britain--In literature.
- Great Britain.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political representationalism with skepticism, bleakness, and despair.
- Contents:
- "An epitome of the whole realme" : absorption and representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons
- Cade's mouth : swallowing Parliament in the first tetralogy
- "Their tribune and their trust" : political representation, property, and rape in Titus Andronicus and The rape of Lucrece
- "Caesar is turn'd to hear" : theater, popular dictatorship, and the conspiracy of republicanism in Julius Caesar
- "Worshipful mutineers" : from Demos to electorate in Coriolanus.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9327-5
- OCLC:
- 923194263
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