"An epitome of the whole realme" : absorption and representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons -- Cade's mouth : swallowing Parliament in the first tetralogy -- "Their tribune and their trust" : political representation, property, and rape in Titus Andronicus and The rape of Lucrece -- "Caesar is turn'd to hear" : theater, popular dictatorship, and the conspiracy of republicanism in Julius Caesar -- "Worshipful mutineers" : from Demos to electorate in Coriolanus
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index