Reviews Plays: The Jew of Malta, Julius Caesar, Much Ado about Nothing, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet, Henry V, Richard III, Shakespeare's Villains: A Masterclass in Evil, Antony and Cleopatra, Gallathea, La nuit des Rois, Peine d'amour perdue, Roméo et Juliette

1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-106
Author(s):  
Carolyn D. Williams ◽  
William T. Liston ◽  
William T. Liston ◽  
William T. Liston ◽  
Peter J. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Julius Caesar ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Henry V ◽  
Antony And Cleopatra ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
Much Ado About Nothing ◽  
Romeo Et Juliette

Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Henry V ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Political Events

Shakespeare’s Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeare’s plays reveal there is always something more terrifying to the king than rebellion. The book seeks to move beyond the presumption that political evolution leads ineluctably away from autocracy and aristocracy toward republicanism and popular sovereignty. Instead, it argues for affirmative politics in Shakespeare—the process of transforming scenes of negative affect into political resistance. Shakespeare’s Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeare’s affirmative politics appears not in his dialectical opposition to sovereignty, absolutism, or tyranny; nor is his affirmative politics an inchoate form of republicanism on its way to becoming politically viable. Instead, this study claims that it is in the place of dissensus that the expression of the eventful condition of affirmative politics takes place – a fugitive expression that the sovereign order always wishes to shut down. Exploring a concept of fugitive politics in Coriolanus, King John, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, The Winter’s Tale and Julius Caesar, the study contends that this investment in political theory during a time of crisis helps to explain Shakespeare’s enduring relevance to theo-political events beyond the early modern stage.

Shakespeare at Stratford. Series edited by Robert Smallwood, Susan Brock, and Russell Jackson. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2002; King Richard III. By Gillian Day. xiii + 259 pp. $24.99; Shakespeare at Stratford. Series edited by Robert Smallwood, Susan Brock, and Russell Jackson. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2002; The Merchant of Venice. By Miriam Gilbert. xiii + 183 pp. $24.99; Shakespeare at Stratford. Series edited by Robert Smallwood, Susan Brock, and Russell Jackson. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2002; The Winter's Tale. By Patricia E. Tatspaugh. xiii + 240 pp. $24.99.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Cary M. Mazer
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice

Scholars preparing production histories of individual Shakespeare plays have long been faced with the challenges of structuring their studies. The scholar can choose to write a straightforward one-actor-or-production-after-another monograph (Rosenberg on Othello, Ripley on Julius Caesar and Coriolanus, Bartholomeuz on Macbeth and The Winter's Tale, etc.), a transhistorical encyclopedic scene-by-scene and line-by-line collation (Rosenberg on King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet), a transhistorical interlineated text (Bratton and Hankey's Shakespeare in Production editions, under a variety of different series titles and publishers), or an exemplary-production snapshot album (Mulryne and Bulman's Shakespeare in Performance series).

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