Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts

by Laurie Shannon

Book Overview

Renaissance formulations of friendship typically cast the friend as "another self" and idealized a pair of friends as "one soul in two bodies." Laurie Shannon's Sovereign Amity puts this stress on the likeness of friends into context and offers a historical account of its place in English culture and politics.

Shannon demonstrates that the likeness of sex and station urged in friendship enabled a civic parity not present in other social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226749673
• ISBN13: 9780226749679
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"