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Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
The political arena offers many examples of conflict-- between individuals, groups, or the individual and the group, or within the individual. It is natural that a sizable body of fiction has grown up using politics as a main source of action.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare's England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to which Shakespeare's plays speak to the depth and sophistication of Elizabethan political culture and the Elizabethan imagination. Lake reveals the complex ways...
13) The radical novel in the United States, 1900-1954: some interrelations of literature and society
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe's Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of...