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

Pye, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113880892X ISBN 13: 9781138808928

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship 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. Renaissance theater was far more than a vehicle for the expression of a political content: it played a constitutive role in forming the distinctive theory of sovereignty and the distinctive political subjectivity of the era. By reading Shakespeare’s plays conjunction with other, ideologically charged forms of representation, the book continues new-historicist efforts to uncover the complex relations between literary texts and cultural contexts. 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.

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Pye, Christopher

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113880892X
• ISBN 13: 9781138808928
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210