Shakespeare and tyranny : regimes of reading in Europe and beyond / edited by Keith Gregor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gregor, Keith, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century--Congresses.

Politics and literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century--Congresses.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Europe--Congresses.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together a selection of essays on the reception and dissemination of Shakespeare's plays in England and beyond from the 17th century to the present. Written from the perspective of a nation or cluster of nations in which Shakespeare has been used either to reflect, legitimize or challenge different versions of authoritarian rule, each of the chapters offers a picture of Shakespeare as unwitting commentator on some of the most significant and unsettling political events in Eur...

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

"Best represented by L. C. Knights's assertion in his 1957 Shakespeare Lecture to the British Academy: "Shakespeare, like the great majority of his fellow-countrymen, 'had no politics"' (Knights 1979, 152)."

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 15, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6770-5

OCLC:

892243499