Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne
Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2002
- ISBN 9780199257607
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 223x146x23 mm
- Weight 479 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The 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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From 1595-1600 Shakespeare dissected the workings of political power in the four histories of the Henriad and in Hamlet in ways which were remarkably parallel - and were perhaps influenced by - the ideas of the father of modern political analysis, Niccol? Machiavelli. However, the very same plays simultaneously explored the dynamics of self- and identity-formation under new conditions of secular modernity, in the process producing such memorable characters as Richard II, Prince Hal, Falstaff, and Hamlet. Hugh Grady argues that in analyzing modern subjectivity, Shakespeare re-produced not the ideas of Machiavelli, but those of Michel de Montaigne, that Renaissance definer of shifting identities and subjectivities and of complexly formed, sceptical knowledge. In so doing, Shakespeare in effect contributes to the theoretical debates over power and subjectivity in literary and cultural studies at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Grady again has made a genuine contribution to current criticism of Shakespeare and critical theory.
Table of Contents:
Historicism and the Cultural Present in Shakespeare Studies: Subjectivity in Early and Late Modernity
A Shakespeare Machiavellian Moment, 1595-1600: An Overview
The Discourse of Princes in Richard II: From Machiavelli to Montaigne
Montaigne, Shakespeare, and the Construction of Modern Subjectivity
The Resistance to Power in 1 Henry IV: Subjectivity in the World
The Reified Worlds of 2 Henry IV and Henry V
Hamlet and The Tragedy of the Subject
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