The regal phantasm : Shakespeare and the politics of spectacle / Christopher Pye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pye, Christopher, 1953- author.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

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

Politics and literature.

Political plays, English--History and criticism.

Political plays, English.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

Kings and rulers in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Sovereignty in literature.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture and representations of treason and punishment. Renaissance theater was far more than a vehicle for the expression of a political content: it played a constitutive role in forming the distinctive theory of sovereignty and the distinctive political subjectivity of the era. By reading Shakespeare's play

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Mock Sovereignty: Henry V; 2 Theatricality and Power; 3 The Betrayal of the Gaze: Richard II; 4 The Spectacle of Punishment; 5 Macbeth and the Politics of Rapture; Notes; Index

Notes:

First published in 1990 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-75034-1

1-317-61186-1

1-317-61187-X

9781315750347

OCLC:

958095673