Worldly Shakespeare : : The Theatre of Our Good Will / / Richard Wilson.

The first study to consider Shakespeare's plays through the lens of contemporary agonistic political philosophyIn Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Texts
  • Introduction: No Offence in the World
  • 1 A Globe of Sinful Continents: Shakespeare Thinks the World
  • 2 Too Long for a Play: Shakespeare and the Wars of Religion
  • 3 Shakespeare in Hate: Performing the Virgin Queen
  • 4 No Enemy But Winter: Shakespeare's Rogue State
  • 5 Fools of Time: Shakespeare and the Martyrs
  • 6 Veiling an Indian Beauty: Shakespeare and the Hijab
  • 7 When Golden Time Convents: Shakespeare and the Shah
  • 8 Like an Olympian Wrestling: Shakespeare's Olympic Game
  • 9 As Mice by Lions: Political Theology and Measure for Measure
  • 10 Incensing Relics: All's Well That Ends Well in Shakespeare's Spain
  • Epilogue: Flower Power in Bohemia
  • Index