Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne
Subtitle: power and subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet
By: Hugh Grady.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Influence; Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Influence; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Histories; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Historical drama, English -- History and criticism; Machiavellianism (Psychology) in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Subjectivity in literature
Description: The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor. (Amazon).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-281) and index.