Shakespeare and the Political Way

by Elizabeth Frazer

Book Overview

Studies of Shakespeare and politics often ask the question whether his dramas are on the side of aristocratic or monarchical sovereign authority, or are on the side of those who resist; whether he endorses a standard view of male and patriarchal authority, or whether his cross-dressing heroines put him among feminist thinkers. Scholars also show that Shakespeare's representations of rule, revolt, and arguments about laws and constitutions draw on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198848617
• ISBN13: 9780198848615
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.3"