Speaking to readers in a voice that is adventurous rather than authoritative, innovative rather than institutional and speculative rather than orthodox, Linda Charnes' provocative study of Shakespeare's legacy in contemporary American and British politics explores the following themes:
namesake princes and presidents
stolen thrones and elections
plutocrats and insurgents
campaign trails and war-mongering
waning monarchy and imperilled democracy
revengers, early...
Speaking to readers in a voice that is adventurous rather than authoritative, innovative rather than institutional and speculative rather than orth...
Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra--these were figures of intense signification long before Shakespeare took up the task of giving them new life on the stage. And when he did, Linda Charnes argues, he used these legendary figures to explore a new kind of fame--notorious identity--an infamy based not on the moral and ethical "use value" of legend but on a commodification of identity itself: one that must be understood in the context of early modern England's emergent capitalism and its conditions of economic, textual, theatrical, and cultural reproduction. Ranging across...
Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra--these were figures of intense signification long before Shakespeare took up the task of givin...
Speaking to readers in a voice that is adventurous rather than authoritative, innovative rather than institutional and speculative rather than orthodox, Linda Charnes' provocative study of Shakespeare's legacy in contemporary American and British politics explores the following themes:
namesake princes and presidents
stolen thrones and elections
plutocrats and insurgents
campaign trails and war-mongering
waning monarchy and imperilled democracy
revengers, early...
Speaking to readers in a voice that is adventurous rather than authoritative, innovative rather than institutional and speculative rather than orth...
