Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law

by Paul Raffield

Through an examination of six plays by Shakespeare, the author presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule and their representation in poetic drama of the period. The playhouses of London in the 1590s provided a distinctive forum for discourse and dissemination of nascent political ideas. Shakespeare exploited the unique capacity of theatre to humanise contemporary debate concerning the powers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841139211
• ISBN13: 9781841139210
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"