Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781108830188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 290 str.

Andrew (Bangor University) Hiscock

Opis

Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare's history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation's culture.

Recenzje

'Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe is another major study by Andrew Hiscock, one of our leading commentators on early modern cultural and intellectual history … [It] marks a significant contribution to our collective understanding of how violence figured in early modern cultural debate, and how Shakespeare's creative engagement with English history … helped to introduce and sustain such debate …' Rory Loughnane, Modern Language Review

Spis treści

1. 'touching violence or punishments': Walter Ralegh and the economy of aggression; 2. 'Undoing all, as all had never been': the play of violence in Henry VI; 3. In the realm of the 'unthankful King': violent subjects and subjectivities in the Henry IV plays; 4. 'Now thrive the armourers': Henry V and the promise of 'Hungry War'; 5. 'The childe of his great Mistris favour, but the sonne of Bellona': the conflict-ridden careers of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 6. European afterlives 1600–1770.