Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet

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Oxford University Press, 2002 - 286 sivua
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.

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HISTORICISM AND THE CULTURAL
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FROM
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MONTAIGNE SHAKESPEARE AND
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THE RESISTANCE TO POWER IN 1 HENRY
126
THE REIFIED WORLDS OF 2 HENRY IV AND HENRY V
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HAMLET AND THE TRAGEDY OF
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
266
INDEX
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Hugh Grady is a Professor of English, Arcadia University.

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