Shakespearean genealogies of power
Subtitle: a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The merchant of Venice, and The winter's tale
By: Anselm Haverkamp
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780415593441; 9780415593458; 9780203840283
Subjects: Law in literature; Political aspects; Knowledge; Law; Political and social views; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Politics in literature; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Perpetuum mobile: Shakespeare's perpetual Renaissance; title: The ghost of history: Hamlet's politics of paternity; title: Lethe's wharf: wild justice, the purgatorial supplement; title: Richard II, Bracton, and the end of political theology; title: The death of a shifter: Jupiterian history in Julius Caesar; title: The future of violence: Macbeth and Machiavelli; title: The whispering of nothing: The winter's tale; title: But mercy is above: Shylock's pun of a pound; title: Habeas corpus: the law's desire to have the body.