Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editor's note
- 1 Shakespeare and politics: an introduction
- 2 Shakespeare and politics
- 3 Henry VIII and the deconstruction of history
- 4 Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus
- 5 Richard II and the realities of power
- 6 Plutarch, insurrection, and dearth in Coriolanus
- 7 Some versions of coup d'état, rebellion, and revolution
- 8 Language, politics, and poverty in Shakespearian drama
- 9 ‘Demystifying the mystery of state’: King Lear and the world upside down
- 10 Venetian culture and the politics of Othello
- 11 The Bard and Ireland: Shakespeare's Protestantism as politics in disguise
- 12 Henry V as working-house of ideology
- 13 ‘Fashion it thus’: Julius Caesar and the politics of theatrical representation
- 14 Take me to your Leda
- 15 Macbeth on film: politics
- 16 William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: everything's nice in America?
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editor's note
- 1 Shakespeare and politics: an introduction
- 2 Shakespeare and politics
- 3 Henry VIII and the deconstruction of history
- 4 Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus
- 5 Richard II and the realities of power
- 6 Plutarch, insurrection, and dearth in Coriolanus
- 7 Some versions of coup d'état, rebellion, and revolution
- 8 Language, politics, and poverty in Shakespearian drama
- 9 ‘Demystifying the mystery of state’: King Lear and the world upside down
- 10 Venetian culture and the politics of Othello
- 11 The Bard and Ireland: Shakespeare's Protestantism as politics in disguise
- 12 Henry V as working-house of ideology
- 13 ‘Fashion it thus’: Julius Caesar and the politics of theatrical representation
- 14 Take me to your Leda
- 15 Macbeth on film: politics
- 16 William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: everything's nice in America?
- Index
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- Shakespeare and Politics , pp. 263 - 268Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004