The Tears of Sovereignty : Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama / Philip Lorenz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorenz, Philip, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great playwrights of the period—William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca—reconstitute the metaphors through which contemporary theorists continue to conceive the problems of sovereignty. The book focuses in particular on the ways the logics of these metaphors inform sovereignty’s conceptualization as a “body of power.” Each chapter is organized around a key tropological operation performed on that “body,” from the analogical relations invoked in Richard II, through the metaphorical transfers staged in Measure for Measure to the autoimmune resistances they produce in Lope’s Fuenteovejuna, and, finally, the allegorical returns of Calderón’s Life Is a Dream and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The “tears” of sovereignty are the exegetical tropes produced and performed on the English stages and Spanish corrales of the seventeenth century through which we continue to view sovereignty today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Th e Body Is Burning—Sovereignty, Image, Trope

1. Breakdown: Analogy and Ontotheology in Richard II

2. Reanimation: Th e Logic of Transfer in Measure for Measure

3. Resistance: Waiting for Power in Fuenteovejuna

4. Transformation: The Body Moves Out in Life Is a Dream

5. Return: The “Wrinkles” of Mystery in The Winter’s Tale

After- Image

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

9780823293230

0823293238

OCLC:

1369642512