Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to HamletThe four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor. |
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Contents
HISTORICISM AND THE CULTURAL | 1 |
FROM | 58 |
MONTAIGNE SHAKESPEARE AND | 109 |
THE RESISTANCE TO POWER IN 1 HENRY | 126 |
THE REIFIED WORLDS OF 2 HENRY IV AND HENRY V | 180 |
HAMLET AND THE TRAGEDY OF | 243 |
| 266 | |
| 283 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet |
| Authors | Hugh Grady, Professor of English Hugh Grady |
| Contributor | Oxford University Press |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0199257604, 9780199257607 |
| Length | 286 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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