Wilson Free Will

Art and power on Shakespeare's stage
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1105-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare’s plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. The picture of nobody: Shakespeare in the time of the political
2. Welsh roots: Shakespeare’s brute part
3. O world: The echoes of Rome in Julius Caesar
4. Denmark’s a prison: Hamlet and the rules of art
5. Great stage of fools: King Lear and the king’s men
6. Double trouble: Regime change in Macbeth
7. Your crown’s awry: The visual turn in Antony and Cleopatra
8. Like an eagle in a dovecot: The intrusion of the time into the play
Epilogue: No sovereignty: Shakespeare’s voyage to Greece

Über Autor(innen)

Wilson Richard:

Richard Wilson is Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English at the University of LancasterRichard Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University