Shakespearean genealogies of power : a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The merchant of Venice, and The winter's tale /
Haverkamp, Anselm.
London : Routledge,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Perpetuum mobile: Shakespeare's perpetual Renaissance -- The ghost of history: Hamlet's politics of paternity -- Lethe's wharf: wild justice, the purgatorial supplement -- Richard II, Bracton, and the end of political theology -- The death of a shifter: Jupiterian history in Julius Caesar -- The future of violence: Macbeth and Machiavelli -- The whispering of nothing: The winter's tale -- But mercy is above: Shylock's pun of a pound -- Habeas corpus: the law's desire to have the body.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Law in literature.
Politics in literature.
Law
Power (Social sciences) in literature.