Shakespeare's Anti-Politics [electronic resource] : Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh /
Gil, D.author.
Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'.
The historical conditions of possibility of the life of the flesh: absolutism, civic republicanism and 'bare life' in Julius Caesar -- The life of the condemned: the autonomous legal system and the community of the flesh in Measure for measure -- Unsettling the civic republican order: the face of sovereign power and the fate of the citizen in Othello -- Life outside the law: torture and the flesh in King Lear -- Epilogue: The afterlife of the life of the flesh.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Poetry.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.