This original study explores a vital aspect of early-modern
cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the
theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
The book contrasts the Tudor and Stuart prose that called for
the establishment of a standing army in the name of nation,
discipline and subjectivity and the drama of the period that
invited critique of this imperative. Barker examines contemporary
dramatic texts both for their radical position on war and, in the
case of the later drama, for their subversive commentary on an
emerging idealisation of Shakespeare and his work.
The book argues that the early-modern period saw the
establishment of political, social and theological attitudes to war
that were to become accepted as natural in succeeding centuries.
Barker's reading of the drama of the period reveals the
discontinuities in this project as a way of commenting on the use
of the past within modern warfare. The book is also a survey and
analysis of literary theory over the last twenty-five years in
relation to the issue of war - and develops an argument about the
possibilities for the study of literature and war in the
future.
Features
*Interdisciplinary approach addressing the early-modern period
as one of particular importance in the history of warfare.
*Examines the way that the period helped shape modern attitudes
to war.
*Sets Shakespeare in the context of those dramatists who
preceded him, as well as his contemporaries and successors.
*Surveys the work of the past and considers the future of
criticism in relation to warfare.
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