Establishes Shakespeare's plays as some of the period's most
speculative political literature 'Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics'
makes the case that Shakespeare's plays reveal there is always
something more terrifying to the king than rebellion. The book
seeks to move beyond the presumption that political evolution leads
ineluctably away from autocracy and aristocracy toward
republicanism and popular sovereignty. Instead, it argues for
affirmative politics in Shakespeare the process of transforming
scenes of negative affect into political resistance. 'Shakespeare's
Fugitive Politics' argues that Shakespeare's affirmative politics
appears not in his dialectical opposition to sovereignty,
absolutism, or tyranny; nor is his affirmative politics an inchoate
form of republicanism on its way to becoming politically viable.
Instead, this study claims that it is in the place of dissensus
that the expression of the eventful condition of affirmative
politics takes place a fugitive expression that the sovereign order
always wishes to shut down. Key FeaturesPromotes a new
understanding of 'fugitive democracy'Establishes the presence of a
form of alternative politics in early modern drama, articulated
through the contours of theories of sovereigntyExplores how the
parameters of contemporary radical politics take shape in major
Shakespeare plays, including 'Coriolanus', 'King John', 'Henry V',
'Titus Andronicus', 'The Winter's Tale' and 'Julius Caesar'
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