UID:
almahu_9948126490602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (466 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2016. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526111050
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9781526111043
Serie:
Manchester Shakespeare collection
Inhalt:
Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare’s stage is 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. Starting from the dramatist’s cringing relations with his princely patrons, Richard Wilson considers the ways in which this ‘bending author’ identifies freedom in failure and power in weakness by staging the endgames of a sovereignty that begs to be set free from itself. The arc of Shakespeare’s career becomes in this comprehensive new interpretation a sustained resistance to both the institutions of sacred kingship and literary autonomy that were emerging in his time. In a sequence of close material readings, Free Will shows how the plays instead turn command performances into celebrations of an art without sovereignty, which might ‘give delight’ but ‘hurt not’, and ‘leave not a rack behind’.Free Will is a profound rereading of Shakespeare, art and power that will contribute to thinking not only about the plays, but also about aesthetics, modernity, sovereignty and violence.
Anmerkung:
In-house editor: Matthew Frost.
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First published in print form: 2014.
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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 --Index.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Wilson, Richard. Free Will : art and power on Shakespeare's stage, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780719091780
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.7765/9781526111050
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526111050/9781526111050.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526111050
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