Rethinking Shakespeare’s Political Philosophy:
From Lear to Leviathan
Author: Alex Schulman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Pages: 238
Format: PDF
Size: 0.98 Mb
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
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