Title: Sovereign amity : figures of friendship in Shakespearean contexts /
Authors: Shannon, Laurie.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, Knowledge Social life and customs.; Shakespeare, William, Views on friendship.; Kings and rulers in literature; Friendship in literature.
Contents: Prologue: "soveraigne mistris amitie" -- The early modern politics of likeness: sovereign reader/subjects and listening kings -- Chaste associations in Cary's Tragedy of Mariam: sexual mixtures, same-sex friendship, and the genders of integrity -- Professing friendship: erotic prerogatives and "human title" in The two noble kinsmen -- Ungoverned states: Friendship, mignonnerie, and the private monarch -- The false prince and the true subject: friendship and public institutions in Edward II and The Henriad -- Friendship's offices: true speech and artificial bodies in The winter's tale -- Epilogue: Magna civitas; Magna solitudo: bureaucratic forms and civic conditions.