Shakespeare's Political Drama
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Anne's Coronation
Anne’s Coronation
Antony's Death
Antony’s Death
Author_Alexander Leggatt
Boar's Head Tavern
Boar’s Head Tavern
Caesar's Death
Caesar's Spirit
Caesar’s Death
Caesar’s Spirit
Caius Martius
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Category=DS
Category=DSBD
Category=DSG
Cleopatra's Dream
Cleopatra’s Dream
Dead Hotspur
Dead Man
dramatic
Edward III
Edward IV's Son
Edward IV’s Son
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Gad's Hill
Gad's Hill Robbery
Gad’s Hill
Gad’s Hill Robbery
henry
Henry IV
Henry VI
idiom
iii
Jack Falstaff
Lord Chief Justice
plays
Pompey's Galley
Pompey’s Galley
richard
Richard II
Richard III
roman
roses
Saint Crispin's Day
Saint Crispin’s Day
Shakespeare's Political Drama
Temple Garden Scene
thou
Vice Versa
war
White Head
Product details
- ISBN 9780415038881
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 1989
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare. Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power. Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience - as well as the politics of personal relationships. In this book Alexander Leggatt concentrates on the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and losing, of public power in the state, in the English and Roman histories. He sees Shakespeare as concerned both with things as they are, and with things as they ought to be: his depiction of public life includes clear appraisals of the one, and powerful images of the other. It is the interplay of the two that makes the drama.
