Title: The third citizen : Shakespeare's theater and the early modern House of Commons /
Authors: Arnold, Oliver, 1962-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, Political and social views.; Shakespeare, William, Knowledge Rome.; Politics and literature Great Britain History; Politics and literature Great Britain History; Political plays, English History and criticism.; Rome In literature.; Great Britain In literature.
Contents: "An epitome of the whole realme" : absorption and representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons -- Cade's mouth : swallowing Parliament in the first tetralogy -- "Their tribune and their trust" : political representation, property, and rape in Titus Andronicus and The rape of Lucrece -- "Caesar is turn'd to hear" : theater, popular dictatorship, and the conspiracy of republicanism in Julius Caesar -- "Worshipful mutineers" : from Demos to electorate in Coriolanus.