1st Edition
The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals) Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle
By Christopher Pye
Copyright 1990
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture and representations of treason and punishment. Renaissance theater was far more than a vehicle for the... Read more
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Mock Sovereignty: Henry V 2. Theatricality and Power 3. The Betrayal of the Gaze: Richard II 4. The Spectacle of Punishment 5. Macbeth and the Politics of Rapture; Notes; Index
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Pye, Christopher
