Studies of Shakespeare and politics often ask the question whether
his dramas are on the side of aristocratic or monarchical sovereign
authority, or are on the side of those who resist; whether he
endorses a standard view of male and patriarchal authority, or
whether his cross-dressing heroines put him among feminist
thinkers. Scholars also show that Shakespeare's representations of
rule, revolt, and arguments about laws and constitutions draw on
and allude to stories and real events that were contemporaneous for
him, as well as historical ones. Building on scholarship about
Shakespeare and politics, this book argues that Shakespeare's
representations and stagings of political power, sovereignty,
resistance, and controversy are more complex. The merits of
political life, as opposed to life governed by monetary exchange,
religious truth, supernatural power, military heroism, or
interpersonal love, are rehearsed in the plots. And the clashing
and contradictory meanings of politics - its association with free
truthful speech but also with dishonest hypocrisy, with open action
and argument as much as occult behind the scenes manoevring - are
dramatized by him, to show that although violence, lies, and
authoritarianism do often win out in the world there is another
kind of politics, and a political way that we would do well to
follow when we can. The book offers original readings of the
characters and plots of Shakespeare's dramas in order to illustrate
the subtlety of his pictures of political power, how it works, and
what is wrong and right with it.
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