Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of citations and abbreviations -- Introduction (David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice) -- PART I CONTEXTS -- 1. Shakespeare�s properties (David Armitage) -- 2. The active and contemplative lives in Shakespeare�s plays (Catby Curtis) -- 3. Shakespeare and the ethics of authority (Stephen Greenblatt) -- 4. Shakespeare and the politics of superstition (Susan James) -- PART II THE COURT -- 5. Counsel, succession and the politics of Shakespeare�s Sonnets (Cathy Shrank) -- 6. Educating Hamlet and Prince Hal (Aysha Pollnitz) -- 7. The corruption of Hamlet (Andrew Fitzmaurice) -- 8. Unfolding �the properties of government�: the case of Measure for Measure and the history of political thought (Conal Condren) -- 9. Shakespeare and the politics of co-authorship: Henry VIII (Jennifer Richards) -- PART III THE COMMONWEALTH -- 10. Putting the city into Shakespeare�s city comedy (Phil Withington) -- 11. Talking to the animals: persuasion, counsel and their discontents in Julius Caesar (David Colclough) -- 12. Political rhetoric and citizenship in Coriolanus (Markku Peltonen) -- 13. Shakespeare and the best state of a commonwealth (Eric Nelson) -- Afterword: Shakespeare and humanist culture (Quentin Skinner). - This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare�s works within the landscape of early modern political thought. Until recently, literary scholars have not generally treated Shakespeare as a participant in the political thought of his time, unlike his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. At the same time, historians of political thought have rarely turned their attention to major works of poetry and drama. A distinguished international and interdisciplinary team of contributors examines the full range of Shakespeare�s writings in order to challenge conventional interpretations of plays central to the canon, such as Hamlet; open up novel perspectives on works rarely considered to be political, such as the Sonnets; and focus on those that have been largely neglected, such as The Merry Wives of Windsor. The result is a coherent and challenging portrait of Shakespeare�s distinctive engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought: among them, corruption and citizenship, education and persuasion, the hazards of the court and the demands of the commonwealth. ISBN 9780521768085