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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787031203321

Titolo

Shakespeare and tyranny : regimes of reading in Europe and beyond / / edited by Keith Gregor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6770-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 16th century

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Best represented by L. C. Knights's assertion in his 1957 Shakespeare Lecture to the British Academy: "Shakespeare, like the great majority of his fellow-countrymen, 'had no politics"' (Knights 1979, 152)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together a selection of essays on the reception and dissemination of Shakespeare's plays in England and beyond from the 17th century to the present. Written from the perspective of a nation or cluster of nations in which Shakespeare has been used either to reflect, legitimize or challenge different versions of authoritarian rule, each of the chapters offers a picture of Shakespeare as unwitting commentator on some of the most significant and unsettling political events in Eur...