Shakespeare S Political Plays

Author : Allan Bloom,Harry V. Jaffa
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226060415

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Shakespeare's Politics by Allan Bloom,Harry V. Jaffa Pdf

Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs and to make his work once again a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. In essays looking at Julius Caesar, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, Bloom shows how Shakespeare presents a picture of man that does not assume privileged access for only literary criticism. With this claim, he argues that political philosophy offers a comprehensive framework within which the problems of the Shakespearean heroes can be viewed. In short, he argues that Shakespeare was an eminently political author. Also included is an essay by Harry V. Jaffa on the limits of politics in King Lear. "A very good book indeed . . . one which can be recommended to all who are interested in Shakespeare." —G. P. V. Akrigg "This series of essays reminded me of the scope and depth of Shakespeare's original vision. One is left with the impression that Shakespeare really had figured out the answers to some important questions many of us no longer even know to ask."-Peter A. Thiel, CEO, PayPal, Wall Street Journal Allan Bloom was the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor on the Committee on Social Thought and the co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. Harry V. Jaffa is professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School.

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134956029

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Shakespeare's Political Drama by Alexander Leggatt Pdf

There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare. Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power. Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience - as well as the politics of personal relationships. In this book Alexander Leggatt concentrates on the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and losing, of public power in the state, in the English and Roman histories. He sees Shakespeare as concerned both with things as they are, and with things as they ought to be: his depiction of public life includes clear appraisals of the one, and powerful images of the other. It is the interplay of the two that makes the drama.

Author : Hugh M. Richmond
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005363119

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Shakespeare's Political Plays by Hugh M. Richmond Pdf

Author : T. Burns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137314659

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Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom by T. Burns Pdf

Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics.

Author : Bruce E. Altschuler,Michael A. Genovese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317252177

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Shakespeare and Politics by Bruce E. Altschuler,Michael A. Genovese Pdf

William Shakespeare, more than any other author, was able to capture the essence of human nature in all its manifestations. His political plays offer enduring insights into our humanity, our vanity, our noble and baser drives, what makes us great, and what makes us loathsome. He tells us about ourselves and about our world. This volume gleans valuable lessons from the writings of William Shakespeare and applies them to contemporary politics. Original chapters covering over a dozen different plays take up perennial political themes including power and leadership, corruption and virtue, war and peace, evil and liberty, persuasion and polarization, and empire and global overreach.Features of the text:

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520061608

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Shakespearean Negotiations by Stephen Greenblatt Pdf

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.

Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300222715

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How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage by Peter Lake Pdf

The politics of virtue -- Honour and its enemies: women on top - again -- Anti-popery -- Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war -- CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means -- The making of a Machiavel -- Monstrous bodies and providential signs -- Signs and prophecies -- The audience as 'high all- seer' -- Ambiguities of 'evil counsel' -- From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy -- Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future -- CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared

Author : Stephen W. Smith,Travis Curtright
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 073910361X

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Shakespeare's Last Plays by Stephen W. Smith,Travis Curtright Pdf

What were Shakespeare's final thoughts on history, tragedy, and comedy? Shakespeare's Last Plays focuses much needed scholarly attention on Shakespeare's "Late Romances." The work--a collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars of classical political philosophy and literature--offers careful textual analysis of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The essays reveal how Shakespeare's thought in these final works compliments, challenges, fulfills, or transforms previously held conceptions of the playwright and his political-philosophical views.

Author : Tim Spiekerman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791491201

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Shakespeare's Political Realism by Tim Spiekerman Pdf

This book provides fresh interpretations of five of Shakespeare's history plays (King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V), each guided by the often criticized assumption that Shakespeare can teach us something about politics. In contrast to many contemporary political critics who treat Shakespeare's political dramas as narrow reflections of his time, the author maintains that Shakespeare's political vision is wide-ranging, compelling, and relevant to modern audiences. Paying close attention to character and context, as well as to Shakespeare's creative use of history, the author explores Shakespeare's views on perennially important political themes such as ambition, legitimacy, tradition, and political morality. Particular emphasis is placed on Shakespeare's relation to Machiavelli, turning repeatedly to the conflict between ambition and justice. In the end, Shakespeare's history plays point to the limits of politics even more pessimistically than Machiavelli's realism.

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393635768

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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt Pdf

"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable."—Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901477117

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Shakespeare's Political Drama by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Alulis,Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015040669742

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Shakespeare's Political Pageant by Joseph Alulis,Vickie B. Sullivan Pdf

Literary works, through their very personal means of characterization, reveal the direct effect of politics on individuals in a way a political treatise cannot. The distinguished contributors to this volume share the belief that Shakespeare is the author who most effectively sets forth the multifarious pageant of politics. Shakespeare's rich canon presents monarchy and republic, tyrant and king, thinker and soldier, and Christian and pagan. The twelve essays in Shakespeare's Political Pageant discuss a broad range of Shakespeare's dramatic poetry from the perspective of the political theorist. This innovative book demonstrates the immense value of seeing Shakespeare's plays in the context of political philosophy. It will be an important source for students and scholars of both political science and literature.

Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521544815

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Shakespeare and Politics by Catherine M. S. Alexander Pdf

Selection of sixteen provocative and stimulating essays on the complex subject of Shakespeare and politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political plays, English
ISBN : 9780198848615

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Shakespeare and the Political Way by Anonim Pdf

This book develops an original approach to theories of political power and seeks to show the particular value of examining these issues through the frame of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Louis Montrose
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0226534839

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The Purpose of Playing by Louis Montrose Pdf

Examines the role of Elizabethan drama in the shape of cultural belief, values, and understanding of political authority.