Sovereign amity
Subtitle: figures of friendship in Shakespearean contexts
By: Laurie Shannon.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs.; Kings and rulers in literature.; Friendship in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: "soveraigne mistris amitie"; title: The early modern politics of likeness: sovereign reader/subjects and listening kings; title: Chaste associations in Cary's Tragedy of Mariam: sexual mixtures, same-sex friendship, and the genders of integrity; title: Professing friendship:  erotic prerogatives and "human title" in The two noble kinsmen; title: Ungoverned states: Friendship, mignonnerie, and the private monarch; title: The false prince and the true subject: friendship and public institutions in Edward II and The Henriad; title: Friendship's offices: true speech and artificial bodies in The winter's tale; title: Epilogue: Magna civitas; Magna solitudo: bureaucratic forms and civic conditions.