Shakespearean genealogies of power a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The merchant of Venice, and The winter's tale
Anselm Haverkamp
New York
Routledge
2010
p. cm.
a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The merchant of Venice, and The winter's tale
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616--Political and social views
Law in literature
Politics in literature
Law--Political aspects
Power )Social sciences( in literature
PR
3028
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H38
2010
Haverkamp, Anselm
Introduction -- Perpetuum mobile: Shakespeare's perpetual Renaissance -- The ghost of history: Hamlet's politics of paternity -- Lethe's wharf: wild justice, the purgatorial supplement -- Richard II, Bracton, and the end of political theology -- The death of a shifter: Jupiterian history in Julius Caesar -- The future of violence: Macbeth and Machiavelli -- The whispering of nothing: The winter's tale -- But mercy is above: Shylock's pun of a pound -- Habeas corpus: the law's desire to have the body