Shakespeare'S Body Parts
Uncovers the workings of sovereign power in Shakespeare's history playsPresents a sustained, formalist reading of Shakespeare's history playsReads Shakespeare's history plays for their contribution to…
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Uncovers the workings of sovereign power in Shakespeare's history playsPresents a sustained, formalist reading of Shakespeare's history playsReads Shakespeare's history plays for their contribution to political thought, and to theories of sovereigntyDelivers a thorough and wide-ranging formal analysis of Shakespearean body parts, both literal and figurativePresents a particular view of Shakespeare's language-use as "baroque", its convolutions contributing to complex articulations of sovereign willCapitalises on current theories of authorship in relation to the history plays in order to assess Shakespeare's particular contribution to how sovereignty is imagined in the late sixteenth centuryThis book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of