Shakespeare and republicanism
"Andrew Hadfield reveals for the first time exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in political thought that were critical of the English crown and constitution. Shakespeare has often been seen as a conservative political thinker characterised by an over-riding fear of the 'mob'. Hadfield argues instead that Shakespeare's writing emerged out of an intellectual milieu fascinated by republican ideas. From the 1590s onwards, he explored republican themes in his poetry and plays: political assassination, elected government, alternative constitutions and, perhaps most importantly of all, the problem of power without responsibility. Beginning with Shakespeare's apocalyptic representation of civil war in the Henry VI plays, Hadfield provides a series of powerful new readings of Shakespeare and his time. For anyone interested in Shakespeare and Renaissance culture this book is required reading."--Jacket
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xiii, 363 pages ; 24 cm
9780521816076, 9780521718004, 0521816076, 0521718007
60418250
Was Shakespeare a republican?
Republican culture in the 1590s
Forms of republican culture in late sixteenth-century England
Literature and republicanism in the age of Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Republicanism
Shakespeare's early republican career
Shakespeare's Pharsalia: the first tetralogy
The beginning of the republic: Venus and Lucrece
The end of the republic: Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar
The radical Hamlet
After the republican moment
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