Title: Shakespeare's fugitive politics /
Authors: Anderson, Thomas Page, 1968-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, Political and social views.; Politics and literature.
Abstract: This volume establishes Shakespeare's plays as some of the period's most speculative political literature. It promotes a new understanding of 'fugitive democracy', and establishes the presence of a form of alternative politics in early modern drama, articulated through the countours of theories of sovereignty. It provides new readings of major plays: Coriolanus, King John, Henry V, Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar.
Contents: The embodied will in Julius Caesar : an introduction to Shakespeare's fugitive politics -- Friendship, sovreignty and political discord in Coriolanus -- Touching sovreignty in Henry V -- Sovreignty's scribbled form in King John -- Body politics and the non-sovreign exception in Titus Andronicus and The winter's tale.