1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Politics
1 Introduction
Chris Fitter
PART I
Early Life
2 Stratford Politics, 1553–1620
Glyn Parry and Cathryn Enis
3 Politics and Rhetoric in Grammar Schools and Beyond
Markku Peltonen
4 Out of This World: The Utopian Politics of Shakespeare Biography
Paul Menzer
PART II
Social Class
5 Shakespeare and the People: Staging Political Economy
Steve Hindle
6 Shakespeare and the Middle Sorts
Jeffrey S. Doty
7 Shakespeare, the Court, and the Courtly: Drama as a Public Medium
András Kiséry
PART III
The Critical Ferment
8 Shakespeare and the Lucretian
Ada Palmer, Elena Nicoli and Sarah‑Gray Lesley
9 Shakespeare and Machiavelli
Andrew Moore
10 Shakespeare and Montaigne and Politics
Lars Engle
11 Shakespeare, Radical Humanism, and Tudor Reform Movements
Matt Williamson
12 Shakespeare, Cosmology and the Politics of Infinity
Howard Marchitello
PART IV
The Theatre World
13 The Politics of Playing Companies: Audience, Repertory, and Patron
Eric Dunnum
14 Shakespeare, Theatre and Transgression
Duncan Salkeld
PART V
National Politics
15 Shakespeare and the Justice System
Peter C. Herman
16 Shakespeare and the Common Law
Ian Ward
17 Shakespeare, Populism, and the Public Sphere
Joseph Mansky
18 Shakespeare and Religion: Against Nostalgia and against Persecution
Richard Strier
19 Shakespeare and War
Curtis C. Breight
20 “Enter Rumour”: The Politics of Speech and Silence in Drama and Everyday Life
Andy Wood
21 Shakespeare and Early Capitalism
Daniel Vitkus
PART VI
Shakespeare in the Modern World: Political Appropriations
22 Shakespeare and Marxism
David Hawkes
23 Feminist Shakespeares
Jean E. Howard
24 LGBTQ+ Shakespeares
Joseph Gamble
25 Shakespeare and Racial Capitalism
Ania Loomba
26 Shakespeare, Anti‑Colonialism, and Struggles for Social Justice
27 Shakespeare and Ecocriticism
Simon C. Estok
Index
Crystal Bartolovich
Biography
Chris Fitter is Professor of English at Rutgers University at Camden, USA. His publications include Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe (2020), Radical Shakespeare (2011), and Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners (2017).
