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Shakespeare's Curse - The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama (Paperback)
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Shakespeare's Curse - The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama (Paperback)
Series: Discourses of Law
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Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational,
mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse,
Shakespeare's Curse pursues a reading of Richard III, King John,
and King Lear in order to analyse the persistence of imprecations
in the discourses of modernity. Shakespeare wrote during a period
that was transformative in the development of juridical thinking.
However, taking up the relationship between theatre, theology and
law, Bjoern Quiring argues that the curse was not eliminated from
legal discourses during this modernization of jurisprudence;
rather, it persisted and to this day continues to haunt numerous
speech acts. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Lacan, Walter Benjamin
and Giorgio Agamben, among others, Quiring analyses the
performativity of the curse, and tracks its power through the
juristic themes that are pursued within Shakespeare's plays - such
as sovereignty, legitimacy, succession, obligation, exception, and
natural law. Thus, this book provides an original and important
insight into early modern legal developments, as well as a fresh
perspective on some of Shakespeare's best-known works. A
fascinating interdisciplinary study, this book will interest
students and scholars of Law, Literature, and History.
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