Shakespeare's Body Parts : : Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays / / Huw Griffiths.
Uncovers the workings of sovereign power in Shakespeare’s history plays Presents 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 analy...
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Griffiths, Huw, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Shakespeare's Body Parts : Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays / Huw Griffiths. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2020 1 online resource (160 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Baroque Body Parts of Henry VI Part Two -- 1. Richard II as Robinson Crusoe: Sovereignty and the Impossibility of Solitude -- 2. Necks, Throats and Windpipes in Henry V: Sovereignty Translated -- 3. Prosthetic Hands in King John -- 4. Copious Sovereignty in the Henry IV Plays -- 5. ‘My kingdom for a horse’: Bestial Sovereignty in Richard III -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Uncovers the workings of sovereign power in Shakespeare’s history plays Presents 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 Shakespeare’s history plays, including Henry V, Richard III, Richard II, King John and Henry IV. With a starting point in literary critical analyses of these dislocated bodies, the book tracks Shakespeare’s relentless pursuit of a specific political question: how does human flesh, blood and bone relate to sovereignty? Griffiths advances our understanding of how human bodies are captured by — and escape — the grip of political systems." Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Human body in literature. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110780413 print 9781474448703 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474448727 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474448727 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474448727/original |
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