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Shakespeare’s Politics A Contextual Introduction

Wells Robin Headlam
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780826493057
Publisert
2009-01-06
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248

Forfatter
Wells Robin Headlam

Biographical note

Robin Headlam Wells is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Literature at Roehampton University, London. His publications include Elizabethan Mythologies (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Shakespeare on Masculinity (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and Shakespeare's Humanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Shakespeare’s Politics A Contextual Introduction

Wells Robin Headlam
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Wells Robin Headlam
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This title offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays, written in an accessible, jargon-free style."Shakespeare's Politics" is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. The clear, jargon-free narrative introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England.The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics. By reading Shakespeare alongside contemporary documents students will be able to develop their own informed critical interpretations of the plays. "Shakespeare's Politics" is essential for anyone studying Shakespeare while tutors and postgraduate students will find the book's up-to-date survey of modern Shakespeare criticism useful and provocative.
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Offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays. This volume introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It is suitable for those studying Shakespeare.
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Preface; Introduction; 1. Civilization and the debate on human nature; 2. Gender; 3. Forms of government; 4. The just ruler; 5. Rebellion; 6. Providence and history; 7. Natural law; Postscript: Shakespeare's politics and modern criticism; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.
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"A new revised and enlarged edition of Robin Headlam Wells' book will be widely welcomed. It combines the features of a reader and a monograph, offering students extracts from contemporary documents that may not otherwise be easily accessible. Headlam Wells draws a revisionist cultural map of the period, looking at Shakespearean texts in the light of early modern political debates that have too often been ignored by scholars who want to see his plays refracted through the glass of twenty-first century theory. Instead of treating Shakespeare and his contemporaries as our intellectual precursors, he portrays them with wonderful clarity as belonging to a mental world that is radically different from our own." - Michael Hattaway, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield
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An introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays, written in an accessible, jargon-free style.
It gives students the opportunity to read relevant Shakespeare extracts alongside contemporary historical and political documents and so form their own judgements about the politics of the plays.

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This title offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays, written in an accessible, jargon-free style."Shakespeare's Politics" is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. The clear, jargon-free narrative introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England.The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics. By reading Shakespeare alongside contemporary documents students will be able to develop their own informed critical interpretations of the plays. "Shakespeare's Politics" is essential for anyone studying Shakespeare while tutors and postgraduate students will find the book's up-to-date survey of modern Shakespeare criticism useful and provocative.
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Offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays. This volume introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It is suitable for those studying Shakespeare.
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Preface; Introduction; 1. Civilization and the debate on human nature; 2. Gender; 3. Forms of government; 4. The just ruler; 5. Rebellion; 6. Providence and history; 7. Natural law; Postscript: Shakespeare's politics and modern criticism; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.
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"A new revised and enlarged edition of Robin Headlam Wells' book will be widely welcomed. It combines the features of a reader and a monograph, offering students extracts from contemporary documents that may not otherwise be easily accessible. Headlam Wells draws a revisionist cultural map of the period, looking at Shakespearean texts in the light of early modern political debates that have too often been ignored by scholars who want to see his plays refracted through the glass of twenty-first century theory. Instead of treating Shakespeare and his contemporaries as our intellectual precursors, he portrays them with wonderful clarity as belonging to a mental world that is radically different from our own." - Michael Hattaway, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield
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An introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays, written in an accessible, jargon-free style.
It gives students the opportunity to read relevant Shakespeare extracts alongside contemporary historical and political documents and so form their own judgements about the politics of the plays.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780826493057
Publisert
2009-01-06
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248

Forfatter
Wells Robin Headlam

Biographical note

Robin Headlam Wells is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Literature at Roehampton University, London. His publications include Elizabethan Mythologies (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Shakespeare on Masculinity (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and Shakespeare's Humanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

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