The pragmatics of early modern politics : power and kingship in Shakespeare's history plays /
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". T...
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Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. :
Rodopi,
2014
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| Series: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 206. |
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