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Rethinking Shakespeare's political philosophy :

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0748682414 (hbk.)

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9780748682416 (hbk.)

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Rethinking Shakespeare's political philosophy :

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from Lear to Leviathan /

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Alex Schulman

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x, 231 pages ;

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24 cm

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Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index

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Introduction -- I: Shakespearean antiquity -- The birth of tragicomedy (In the defeat of Hector by Ulysses) -- Pagan Christs: Politics in the Roman plays -- II: Shakespearean modernity -- "King Lear" and the state of nature -- Shakespeare's "Novus Ordo Seclorum": Freedom and authority in the English Histories -- Shakespeare and the Theological-Political Problem

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What were Shakespeare's politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare's plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others. This book is the first attempt by a political theorist to read Shakespeare within the trajectory of political thought as one of the authors of modernity. From Shakespeare's interpretation of ancient and medieval politics to his wrestling with issues of legitimacy, religious toleration, family conflict, and economic change, Alex Schulman shows how Shakespeare produces a fascinating map of modern politics at its crisis-filled birth. As a result, there are brand new readings of Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Richard II and Henry IV, parts I and II , The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. -- Provided by publisher

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Political and social views

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Schulman, Alex

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20150609115240.0

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