Shakespearean territories / Stuart Elden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elden, Stuart, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Themes, motives.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Geography in literature.

Geopolitics in literature.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Themes, motives.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 338 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Summary:

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare's unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare's plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.

Contents:

Divided territory: the geo-politics of King Lear

Vulnerable territories: regional geopolitics in Hamlet and Macbeth

The territories: majesty and possession in King John

Economic territories: laws, economies, agriculture, and banishment in Richard II

Legal territories: conquest and contest in Henry V and Edward III

Colonial territories: from The Tempest to the Eastern Mediterranean

Measuring territories: the techniques of rule

Corporeal territories: the political bodies of Coriolanus

Outside territory: the forest in Titus Andronicus and As You Like It

Coda: Beyond pale territories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226559056

022655905X

9780226559193

022655919X

OCLC:

1022977158