Shakespeare's monarchies
ruler and subject in the romances
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Author
Publication
1997 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL667910M
- ISBN-100801428289
- OCLC Control Number36755831
- OCLC Control Numbershakespearesmona00jord
- Library of Congress Control Number97013665
and 2 more
- Goodreads3840956
- LibraryThing149750
Classifications
- DDC822.3/3
- LCCPR2981.5 .J67 1997
Description
Constance Jordan looks at how Shakespeare, through his romances, contributed to the cultural debates over the nature of monarchy in Jacobean England. Stressing the differences between absolutist and constitutionalist principles of rule, Jordan reveals Shakespeare's investment in the idea that a head of state should be responsive to law, and not be governed by his unbridled will. Conflicts within royal courts which occur in the romances show wives, daughters, and servants resisting tyrannical husbands, fathers, masters, and monarchs by relying on the authority of conscience. Shakespeare's Monarchies recognizes the romances as politically inflected texts and confirms Shakespeare's involvement in the public discourse of the period.
First Sentence
SOUTHWARK, 1611. PLAYGOERS PATRONIZING THE GLOBE HAD A CHANCE to see two new plays by William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.
Excerpt
SOUTHWARK, 1611. PLAYGOERS PATRONIZING THE GLOBE HAD A CHANCE to see two new plays by William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.
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