Shakespeare And The Body Politic
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Author | : Bernard J. Dobski |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0739170961 |
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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.
Author | : Andrew Moore |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498514081 |
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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.
Author | : Mike Jewett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Martha Kalnin Diede |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781433101335 |
Download Shakespeare's Knowledgeable Body Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Owen Lancer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Politics and literature |
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Download The King and the Body Politic in Shakespeare's Second History Tetralogy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : James Alfred Lewin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Download Ghosts of the Body-politic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : David George Hale |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2021-03-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112415140 |
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Author | : Ernst H. Kantorowicz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Stephen Greenblatt |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-05-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0393635767 |
Download Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable."—Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge them.
Author | : Abraham Zamichow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3469 |
Release | : 1979 |
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