Shakespeare and republicanism
This highly praised book, first published in 2005, reveals in a series of powerful readings how political thought critical of the government underpins Shakespeare's writing. Anyone interested in Shakespeare and Renaissance politics should know and understand Hadfield's argument.
Print Book, English, 2008
1st pbk. ed. (with corrections) View all formats and editions
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008
History
xv, 363 pages ; 23 cm
9780521718004, 9780521816076, 0521718007, 0521816076
212859091
Introduction: was Shakespeare a Republican?; Part I. Republican Culture in the 1590s: 1. Forms of Republican culture in late sixteenth-century England; 2. Literature and Republicanism in the age of Shakespeare; Part II. Shakespeare and Republicanism: Introduction: Shakespeare's early Republican career; 3. Shakespeare's Pharsalia: the first Tetralogy; 4. The beginning of the Republic: Venus and Lucrece; 5. The end of the Republic: Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar; 6. The Radical Hamlet; 7. After the Republican moment; Conclusion; Bibliography.
Originally published 2005