How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays

How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays
ISBN-10
0300222718
ISBN-13
9780300222715
Category
History
Pages
683
Language
English
Published
2016-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
Peter Lake

Description

The politics of virtue -- Honour and its enemies: women on top - again -- Anti-popery -- Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war -- CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means -- The making of a Machiavel -- Monstrous bodies and providential signs -- Signs and prophecies -- The audience as 'high all- seer' -- Ambiguities of 'evil counsel' -- From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy -- Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future -- CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared

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