1st Edition
Shakespeare's Political Drama The History Plays and the Roman Plays
By Alexander Leggatt
Copyright 1988
284 Pages
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare. Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power. Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience - as well as the politics of personal relationships. In this book Alexander Leggatt concentrates on the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and... Read more
Chapter 1 Henry VI; Chapter 2 Richard III; Chapter 3 Richard II; Chapter 4 Henry IV; Chapter 5 Henry V; Chapter 6 Julius Caesar; Chapter 7 Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 8 Coriolanus; Chapter 9 Henry VIII;
Biography
Alexander Leggatt
`If good teaching is making the strange and unfamiliar less so, then Shakespeare's Political Drama is indeed exemplary teaching. Through close analysis of the histories and the Roman plays, Leggatt shows what is important politically for Shakespeare and how this differs from our own view...Highly recommended.' - Choice
`... persuasive and well-written ...' - Stage and Television Today
`Leggat is good company: he can be witty and has a sharp feeling for theatre.' - English Literature
`... an extremely literate, thorough and fair-minded history.' - William C. Carroll, Canadian Journal of the Humanities.
