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Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought

2009-09-10 Drama
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Release : 2009-09-10
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought by : David Armitage

Download or read book Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought written by David Armitage. This book was released on 2009-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare's engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.

Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy

2014-07-21 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-07-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy by : Alex Schulman

Download or read book Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy written by Alex Schulman. This book was released on 2014-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare’s History Plays

2014-10-10 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2014-10-10
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare’s History Plays by : Urszula Kizelbach

Download or read book The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare’s History Plays written by Urszula Kizelbach. This book was released on 2014-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern kings adopted a new style of government, Realpolitik, as spelled out in Machiavelli’s writings. Tudor monarchs, well aware of their questionable right to the throne, posed as great dissimulators, similarly to the modern prince who “must learn from the fox and the lion”. This book paints a portrait of a successful politician according to early modern standards. Kingship is no longer understood as a divinely ordained institution, but is defined as goal-oriented policy-making, relying on conscious acting and the theatrical display of power. The volume offers an intriguing discussion on kingship in pragmatic terms, as the strategic face-saving behaviour of Shakespeare’s kings. It also demonstrates how an efficient or inefficient management of the king’s political face could decide his success or failure as a monarch, and how the Renaissance world of Shakespeare’s history plays is combined with modern theories of communication, politeness and face. “Many studies in historical pragmatics or historical stylistics purport to expose language use in social context, but they fall short when measured against this study. The author approaches Shakespeare with concepts from literary studies and linguistic pragmatics, and weaves them together seamlessly with social history. The result is a treasure trove of insights.” – Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University “Exploring Machiavellian politics from the perspective of linguistic pragmatics and sociological role theory, Urszula Kizelbach’s study sheds interesting new light on Shakespeare’s stage kings. Her discussion of the strategic uses of polite speech is a particularly welcome addition to our thinking about Shakespeare’s English history plays. A promising new voice in European Shakespeare studies!” – Andreas Höfele, Munich University

Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare

2020-06-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-06-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare by : Christopher Pye

Download or read book Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare written by Christopher Pye. This book was released on 2020-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn to political concerns in Renaissance studies, beginning in the 1980s, was dictated by forms of cultural materialism that staked their claims against the aesthetic dimension of the work. Recently, however, the more robustly political conception of the aesthetic formulated by theorists such as Theodor Adorno and Jacques Rancière has revitalized literary analysis generally and early modern studies in particular. For these theorists, aesthetics forms the crucial link between politics and the most fundamental phenomenological organization of the world, what Rancière terms the “distribution of the sensible.” Taking up this expansive conception of aesthetics, Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare suggests that the political stakes of the literary work—and Shakespeare’s work in particular—extend from the most intimate dimensions of affective response to the problem of the grounds of political society. The approaches to aesthetic thought included in this volume explore the intersections between the literary work and the full range of concerns animating the field today: political philosophy, affect theory, and ecocritical analysis of environs and habitus.

The Future of Illusion

2014-01-13 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-01-13
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Book Synopsis The Future of Illusion by : Victoria Kahn

Download or read book The Future of Illusion written by Victoria Kahn. This book was released on 2014-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological underpinnings of modern politics, Victoria Kahn proposes a return to secularism—whose origins she locates in the art, literature, and political theory of the early modern period—and argues in defense of literature and art as a force for secular liberal culture. Kahn draws on theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt and their readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that the dialogue between these modern and early modern figures can help us rethink the contemporary problem of political theology. Twentieth-century critics, she shows, saw the early modern period as a break from the older form of political theology that entailed the theological legitimization of the state. Rather, the period signaled a new emphasis on a secular notion of human agency and a new preoccupation with the ways art and fiction intersected the terrain of religion.

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