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Rethinking Shakespeare's political philosophy : from Lear to Leviathan /

What were Shakespeare's politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare's plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schulman, Alex (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
Colección:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy EUP.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part I Shakespearean Antiquity ; 1 The Birth of Tragicomedy (in the defeat of Hector by Ulysses); 2 Pagan Christs: Politics in the Roman Plays; Part II Shakespearean Modernity; 3 King Lear and the State of Nature; 4 Shakespeare's Novus Ordo Seclorum: Freedom and Authority in the English Histories; 5 Shakespeare and the Theological-Political Problem; Epilogue: Brave New Worlds; NOTES; Index.