The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals): Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle

ISBN-13: 9781138808928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 198 str.

Christopher Pye

Opis

First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture and representations of treason and punishment. Providing an interesting and detailed analysis, this reissue will be of value to students of Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, and those concerned with exploring the intersection between cultural analysis, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic interpretation.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations;  Acknowledgements; Introduction;  1. Mock Sovereignty: Henry V  2. Theatricality and Power  3. The Betrayal of the Gaze: Richard II  4. The Spectacle of Punishment  5. Macbeth and the Politics of Rapture;  Notes;  Index

O autorze

Pye, Christopher