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Author Wilson, Richard, 1950- author.

Title Free Will : art and power on Shakespeare's stage / Richard Wilson
Published Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013
New York, NY : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
©2013

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Contents The picture of nobody: Shakespeare in the time of the political -- Welsh roots: Shakespeare's brute part -- O World: the echoes of Rome in Julius Caesar -- Denmark's a prison: Hamlet and the rules of art -- Great stage of fools: King Lear and the King's men -- Double trouble: Regime change in Macbeth -- Your crown's awry: the visual turn in Antony and Cleopatra -- Like an eagle in a dovecot: the intrusion of the time into the play -- No sovereignty: Shakespeare's voyage to Greece
Summary A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2016)
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Aesthetics.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Sovereignty in literature.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Aesthetics
Political and social views
Sovereignty in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526111050
1526111055
Other Titles Art and power on Shakespeare's stage