Shakespeare's Curse
Subtitle: the aporias of ritual exclusion in early modern royal drama
By: Björn Quiring ; translated by Michael Winkler and Björn Quiring
Contributors: Winkler, Michael, translator
Series: Discourses of Law
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780415517560; 9780203762196
Subjects: Knowledge; Law; Oaths in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Richard III and the ostracized heritage of theatre; title: Anne and the supplement of the eucharist; title: Margaret and the excommunication of the old liturgy; title: Edward IV, the oath and the performance of the social contract; title: Hastings and the fateful prophecy; title: Henry VI and the standing army of the dead; title: Clarence and the diabolical allegory; title: Buckingham and the grounds of theater; title: King John and the ordeal of the bastard commodity; title: King Lear and the naturalized state of exception; title: Cordelia and the problem of equity; title: Goneril and Regan in open nature; title: Kent in internal banishment; title: Edgar and the Benedictio Vacui; title: The fool and the bonds of fate; title: Storm still and the perpetual downfall of the last judgment.