Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life

Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life
ISBN-10
022671103X
ISBN-13
9780226711034
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
313
Language
English
Published
2019-10-04
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Julia Reinhard Lupton

Description

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions—bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life—animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard Lupton gently dislodges Shakespeare’s plays from their historical confines to pursue their universal implications. From Petruchio’s animals and Kate’s laundry to Hamlet’s friends and Caliban’s childhood, Lupton restages thinking in Shakespeare as an embodied act of consent, cure, and care. Thinking with Shakespeare encourages readers to ponder matters of shared concern with the playwright by their side. Taking her cue from Hannah Arendt, Lupton reads Shakespeare for fresh insights into everything from housekeeping and animal husbandry to biopower and political theology.

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