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Author Tennenhouse, Leonard, 1942-

Title Power on display : the politics of Shakespeare's major genres / Leonard Tennenhouse
Published London : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Series Routledge library editions 48 Shakespeare
History & politics ; 6
History & politics ; 6.
Routledge library editions. 48, Shakespeare
Contents Cover; POWER ON DISPLAY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Shakespeare and the scene of reading; 1 STAGING CARNIVAL Comedy and the politics of the aristocratic body; 2 RITUALS OF STATE History and the Elizabethan strategies of power; 3 THE THEATER OF PUNISHMENT Jacobean tragedy and the polities of misogyny; 4 FAMILY RITES City comedy, romance, and the strategies of patriarchalism; Notes; Index
Summary First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt. What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general pr
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Politics in literature -- History -- 16th century
Politics in literature -- History -- 17th century
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Political and social views
Politics in literature
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135032708
113503270X