Power on display : the politics of Shakespeare's major genres /
First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt. What is the relation between literary and political power...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2004
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| Series: | History & politics ;
6. Routledge library editions. Shakespeare. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; POWER ON DISPLAY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Shakespeare and the scene of reading; 1 STAGING CARNIVAL Comedy and the politics of the aristocratic body; 2 RITUALS OF STATE History and the Elizabethan strategies of power; 3 THE THEATER OF PUNISHMENT Jacobean tragedy and the polities of misogyny; 4 FAMILY RITES City comedy, romance, and the strategies of patriarchalism; Notes; Index.
