Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questionsbearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and lifeanimate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard Lupton gently dislodges Shakespeares plays from their historical confines to pursue their universal implications. From Petruchios animals and Kates laundry to Hamlets friends and Calibans 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. See more