1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996393479303316

Titolo

His Majesties gracious speech to both houses of Parliament on Munday the 28th of January, 1677/8 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : By the heir of Andrew Anderson, 1678

Descrizione fisica

4 p

Altri autori (Persone)

Charles, King of England,  <1630-1685.>

Soggetti

Great Britain Politics and government 1660-1688

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0021

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967968503321

Autore

Haverkamp Anselm

Titolo

Shakespearean genealogies of power : a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The merchant of Venice, and The winter's tale / / Anselm Haverkamp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-89050-5

1-136-89051-3

1-282-92983-6

9786612929830

0-203-84028-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Discourses of law

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Law in literature

Law - Political aspects

Politics in literature

Power (Social sciences) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; The Argument; CHAPTER 1 Perpetuum Mobile: Shakespeare's Perpetual Renaissance; CHAPTER 2 The Ghost of History: Hamlet and the Politics of Paternity; CHAPTER 3 Lethe's Wharf: Wild Justice, the Purgatorial Supplement; CHAPTER 4 Richard II, Bracton, and the End of Political Theology; CHAPTER 5 The Death of a Shifter: Jupiterian History in Julius Caesar; CHAPTER 6 The Future of Violence: Machiavelli and Macbeth; CHAPTER 7 A Whispering of Nothing: The Winter's Tale; Tailpieces; CHAPTER 8 But Mercy is Above: Shylock's Pun of a Pound

CHAPTER 9 Habeas Corpus: The Law's Desire to Have the BodyNotes; Names, Words, and Things

Sommario/riassunto

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare's involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare's theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity. His plays reflect, even create, ""history"" in a new sense on the premises of the older conceptions of historical and legal exemplarity: examples, cases, and instances are to be reflected rather than treated as straightforwardly didactic or salvific. Thus, what comes to be reco