Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter's Ta

by Anselm Haverkamp

Book Overview

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare's involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare's theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity. His plays reflect, even create, "history" in a new sense on the premises of the older conceptions of historical and legal exemplarity: examples,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041559345X
• ISBN13: 9780415593458
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"