Shakespeare And The Body Politic
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Shakespeare and the Body Politic
Author | : Bernard J. Dobski,Dustin A. Gish |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780739170960 |
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mate Shakespeare’s corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail, variations on the body metaphor abound in the works of Shakespeare. Attention to the political dimensions of this metaphor in Shakespeare and the Body Politic permits readers to examine the sentiments of romantic love and family life, the enjoyment of peace, prosperity and justice, and the spirited pursuit of honor and glory as they inevitably emerge within the social, moral, and religious limits of particular political communities. The lessons to be learned from such an examination are both timely and timeless. For the tensions between the desires and pursuits of individuals and the health of the community forge the sinews of every body politic, regardless of the form it may take or even where and when one might encounter it. In his plays and poetry Shakespeare illuminates these tensions within the body politic, which itself constitutes the framework for a flourishing community of human beings and citizens—from the ancient city-states of Greece and Rome to the Christian cities and kingdoms of early modern Europe. The contributors to this volume attend to the political context and role of political actors within the diverse works of Shakespeare that they explore. Their arguments thus exhibit together Shakespeare’s political thought. By examining his plays and poetry with the seriousness they deserve, Shakespeare’s audiences and readers not only discover an education in human and political virtue, but also find themselves written into his lines. Shakespeare’s body of work is indeed politic, and the whole that it forms incorporates us all.
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes
Author | : Andrew Moore |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781498514088 |
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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare’s political outlook by comparing some of the playwright’s best-known works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. By situating Shakespeare ‘between’ these two thinkers, the distinctly modern trajectory of the playwright’s work becomes visible. Throughout his career, Shakespeare interrogates the divine right of kings, absolute monarchy, and the metaphor of the body politic. Simultaneously he helps to lay the groundwork for modern politics through his dramatic explorations of consent, liberty, and political violence. We can thus understand Shakespeare’s corpus as a kind of eulogy: a funeral speech dedicated to outmoded and deficient theories of politics. We can also understand him as a revolutionary political thinker who, along with Machiavelli and Hobbes, reimagined the origins and ends of government. All three thinkers understood politics primarily as a response to our mortality. They depict politics as the art of managing and organizing human bodies—caring for their needs, making space for the satisfaction of desires, and protecting them from the threat of violent death. This book features new readings of Shakespeare’s plays that illuminate the playwright’s major political preoccupations and his investment in materialist politics.
The Body Politic
Author | : David George Hale |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2021-03-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783112415146 |
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Shakespeare s Knowledgeable Body
Author | : Martha Kalnin Diede |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1433101335 |
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Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare's representation of that body as possessing epistemological faculties. The theater is one of these faculties, and is, therefore, essential to the health and survival of the Early Modern state. By depicting the theater as an essential faculty of the body politic, Shakespeare offers a defense of the theater against anti-theatrical critics. Students and teachers interested in the body and its representations in literature will find this text illuminating as will those scholars whose work focuses on knowledge, its relationship to the body, ways of knowing, and anti-theatrical prejudice.
Shakespearean Power and Punishment
Author | : Gillian Murray Kendall |
Publsiher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0838636799 |
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The essays in this volume demonstrate how effectively different -- indeed seemingly contradictory -- theoretical paradigms can work with Shakespeare's plays to excavate issues of power and punishment.
Power on Display
Author | : Leonard Tennenhouse |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135032692 |
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First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt. What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.
The King s Two Bodies
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Author | : Ernst H. Kantorowicz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:256345930 |
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Politics Plague and Shakespeare s Theater
Author | : John Leeds Barroll |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : UOM:39015024959622 |
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Shakespeare produced most of his great tragedies during the politically disturbed and plague-filled decade following the accession of James I, a period of formidable difficulties for the London theater. Focusing not upon Shakespeare's personal biography but upon his professional role as a member of the company of the King's Servants, Leeds Barroll offers a new narrative about the dramatist's relationship to the court of King James, as well as the manner and order in which the Stuart plays were composed. Positioned in terms of contemporary critical and historical theory, rich in historical details, and challenging in its implications, Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theatre will be read with interest by scholars and students of Elizabethan drama, theater history, Renaissance studies, and English history.